Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11779/2396
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
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