Trust in government moderates the association between fear of COVID-19 as well as empathic concern and preventive behaviour

Arzu Karakulak and Beyza Tepe and Radosveta Dimitrova and Mohamed Abdelrahman and Plamen Akaliyski and Rana Alaseel and Yousuf Abdulqader Alkamali and Azzam Amin and Danny A. Lizarzaburu Aguinaga and Andrii Andres and John Jamir Benzon R. Aruta and Marios Assiotis and Hrant Avanesyan and Norzihan Ayub and Maria Bacikova-Sleskova and Raushan Baikanova and Batoul Bakkar and Sunčica Bartoluci and David Benitez and Ivanna Bodnar and Aidos Bolatov and Judyta Borchet and Ksenija Bosnar and Yunier Broche-Pérez and Carmen Buzea and Rosalinda Cassibba and Marta Martín Carbonell and Chen, Bin-Bin and Gordana Ristevska Dimitrov and Dương Công Doanh and Alejandra del Carmen Dominguez Espinosa and Wassim Gharz Edine and Nelli Ferenczi and Regina Fernández-Morales and Jorge Gaete and Yiqun Gan and Suely Giolo and Rubia Carla Formighieri Giordani and Maria-Therese Friehs and Shahar Gindi and Biljana Gjoneska and Juan Carlos Godoy and Maria del Pilar Grazioso and Camellia Hancheva and Given Hapunda and Shogo Hihara and Mohd Saiful Husain and Md Saiful Islam and Anna Janovská and Nino Javakhishvili and Veljko Jovanović and Russell Sarwar Kabir and Nor Ba’yah Abdul Kadir and Johannes Karl and Darko Katović and Zhumaly Kauyzbay and Tinka Delakorda Kawashima and Maria Kazmierczak and Richa Khanna and Meetu Khosla and Martina Klicperová-Baker and Ana Kozina and Steven Eric Krauss and Rodrigo Landabur and Katharina Lefringhausen and Aleksandra Lewandowska-Walter and Yun-Hsia Liang and Ana Makashvili and Sadia Malik and Denisse Manrique-Millones and Stefanos Mastrotheodoros and Breeda McGrath and Enkeleint A. Mechili and Marinés Mejía and Samson Mhizha and Justyna Michalek-Kwiecien and Diana Miconi and Fatema Mohsen and Rodrigo Moreta-Herrera and Camila Muhl and Maria Muradyan and Pasquale Musso and Andrej Naterer and Arash Nemat and Felix Neto and Joana Neto and Luz Marina Alonso Palacio and Hassan Okati-Aliabad and Carlos Iván Orellana and Ligia María Orellana and Sushanta Kumar Mishra and Joonha Park and Iuliia Pavlova and Eddy Peralta and Petro Petrytsa and Saša Pišot and Franjo Prot and José Rasia and Rita Rivera and Benedicta Prihatin Dwi Riyanti and Adil Samekin and Telman Seisembekov and Danielius Serapinas and Fabiola Silletti and Prerna Sharma and Shanu Shukla and Katarzyna Skrzypińska, and Iva Poláčková Šolcová and Olga Solomontos-Kountouri and Adrian Stanciu and Delia Stefenel and Lorena Cecilia López Steinmetz and Maria Stogianni and Jaimee Stuart and Laura Francisca Sudarnoto and Kazumi Sugimura and Sadia Sultana and Angela Oktavia Suryani and Ergyul Tair and Lucy Tavitian-Elmadjan and Luciana Dutra Thome and Fitim Uka and Rasa Pilkauskaitė Valickienė and Brett Walter and Guilherme W. Wendt and Yang, Pei-Jung and Ebrar Yıldırım and Yue Yu and Maria Angela Mattar Yunes and Milene Zanoni da Silva and Maksim Rudnev (2023) Trust in government moderates the association between fear of COVID-19 as well as empathic concern and preventive behaviour. Communications Psychology, 1 (43). pp. 1-16.

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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.

Item Type:	Article
Keyword:	Human behaviour, Infectious, Diseases
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General) > R5-920 Medicine (General) R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC31-1245 Internal medicine > RC109-216 Infectious and parasitic diseases
Department:	FACULTY > Faculty of Psychology and Education
Depositing User:	SITI AZIZAH BINTI IDRIS -
Date Deposited:	19 Jul 2024 16:06
Last Modified:	19 Jul 2024 16:06
URI:	https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/39214

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