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Title: | Trust in government moderates the association between fear of COVID-19 as well as empathic concern and preventive behaviour | Authors: | Karakulak, Arzu Tepe, Beyza Dimitrova, Radosveta Abdelrahman, Mohamed Akaliyski, Plamen Alaseel, Rana Alkamali, Yousuf Abdulqader |
Abstract: | With the COVID-19 pandemic, behavioural scientists aimed to illuminate reasons why people comply with (or not) large-scale cooperative activities. Here we investigated the motives that underlie support for COVID-19 preventive behaviours in a sample of 12,758 individuals from 34 countries. We hypothesized that the associations of empathic prosocial concern and fear of disease with support towards preventive COVID-19 behaviours would be moderated by trust in the government. Results suggest that the association between fear of disease and support for COVID-19 preventive behaviours was strongest when trust in the government was weak (both at individual- and country-level). Conversely, the association with empathic prosocial concern was strongest when trust in the government was high, but this moderation was only found at individual-level scores of governmental trust. We discuss how motivations may be shaped by socio-cultural context, and outline how findings may contribute to a better understanding of collective action during global crises. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11779/2396 |
Appears in Collections: | Psikoloji Bölümü Koleksiyonu |
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