All you'll feel is doom and gloom: Multiple perspectives on the associations between economic anxiety and conspiracy beliefs

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14560%2F25%3A00140656" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14560/25:00140656 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pops.70003" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pops.70003</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pops.70003" target="_blank" >10.1111/pops.70003</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

All you'll feel is doom and gloom: Multiple perspectives on the associations between economic anxiety and conspiracy beliefs

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The article investigates whether and how adherence to conspiracy beliefs (CBs) about COVID- 19 pandemic might be associated with (and cause) economic anxiety over various cultural settings and time. First, we examined the extent to which CBs predicted economic anxiety using the European Social Survey data, round 10, from 17 countries (Study 1). Second, using data from a balanced (in terms of age, gender, education, and region) Slovak sample, we employed a cross- lagged panel analysis to determine the direction of the association between adherence to CBs and economic anxiety (Study 2). Study 1 revealed that adherence to CBs was significantly associated with higher levels of economic anxiety across cultural contexts. Study 2 compellingly showed that adherence to CBs increased the sense of economic anxiety over time, whereas the reverse causal path from economic anxiety to CBs was consistently nonsignificant. This work provides evidence that adherence to CBs may be increasingly associated with adverse subjective appraisals of economic realities. We discuss how our results can contribute to the understanding that curbing adherence to CBs could also alleviate the sense of economic anxiety. Finally, we recommend a research agenda to better understand the psychological boundary mechanisms accounting for these effects.

Název v anglickém jazyce

All you'll feel is doom and gloom: Multiple perspectives on the associations between economic anxiety and conspiracy beliefs

Popis výsledku anglicky

The article investigates whether and how adherence to conspiracy beliefs (CBs) about COVID- 19 pandemic might be associated with (and cause) economic anxiety over various cultural settings and time. First, we examined the extent to which CBs predicted economic anxiety using the European Social Survey data, round 10, from 17 countries (Study 1). Second, using data from a balanced (in terms of age, gender, education, and region) Slovak sample, we employed a cross- lagged panel analysis to determine the direction of the association between adherence to CBs and economic anxiety (Study 2). Study 1 revealed that adherence to CBs was significantly associated with higher levels of economic anxiety across cultural contexts. Study 2 compellingly showed that adherence to CBs increased the sense of economic anxiety over time, whereas the reverse causal path from economic anxiety to CBs was consistently nonsignificant. This work provides evidence that adherence to CBs may be increasingly associated with adverse subjective appraisals of economic realities. We discuss how our results can contribute to the understanding that curbing adherence to CBs could also alleviate the sense of economic anxiety. Finally, we recommend a research agenda to better understand the psychological boundary mechanisms accounting for these effects.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

50100 - Psychology and cognitive sciences

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/LX22NPO5101" target="_blank" >LX22NPO5101: Národní institut pro výzkum socioekonomických dopadů nemocí a systémových rizik</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Political Psychology

ISSN

0162-895X

e-ISSN

1467-9221

Svazek periodika

46

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

6

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

16

Strana od-do

1638-1653

Kód UT WoS článku

001467301700001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85219690068