Trust in government moderates the association between fear of COVID-19 as well as empathic concern and preventive behaviour.
Arzu KarakulakBeyza TepeRadosveta DimitrovaMohamed AbdelrahmanPlamen AkaliyskiRana AlaseelYousuf Abdulqader AlkamaliAzzam AminDanny A Lizarzaburu AguinagaAndrii AndresJohn Jamir Benzon R ArutaMarios AssiotisHrant AvanesyanNorzihan AyubMaria Bacikova-SleskovaRaushan BaikanovaBatoul BakkarSunčica BartoluciDavid BenitezIvanna BodnarAidos BolatovJudyta BorchetKsenija BosnarYunier Broche-PérezCarmen BuzeaRosalinda CassibbaMarta Martín CarbonellBin-Bin ChenGordana Ristevska DimitrovskaDương Công DoanhAlejandra Del Carmen Dominguez EspinosaWassim Gharz EdineNelli FerencziRegina Fernández-MoralesJorge GaeteYiqun GanSuely Ruiz GioloRubia Carla Formighieri GiordaniMaria-Therese FriehsShahar GindiBiljana GjoneskaJuan Carlos GodoyMaria Del Pilar GraziosoCamellia HanchevaGiven HapundaShogo HiharaMohd Saiful HusainMd Saiful IslamAnna JanovskáNino JavakhishviliVeljko JovanovićRussell Sarwar KabirNor Ba'yah Abdul KadirJohannes KarlDarko KatovićZhumaly KauyzbayTinka Delakorda KawashimaMaria KazmierczakRicha KhannaMeetu KhoslaMartina Klicperová-BakerAna KozinaSteven Eric KraussRodrigo LandaburKatharina LefringhausenAleksandra Lewandowska-WalterYun-Hsia LiangAna MakashviliSadia MalikDenisse Manrique-MillonesStefanos MastrotheodorosBreeda McGrathEnkeleint A MechiliMarines MejíaSamson MhizhaJustyna Michałek-KwiecieńDiana MiconiFatema MohsenRodrigo Moreta-HerreraCamila MuhlMaria MuradyanPasquale MussoAndrej NatererArash NematFelix NetoJoana NetoLuz Marina Alonso PalacioHassan Okati-AliabadCarlos Iván OrellanaLigia María OrellanaSushanta Kumar MishraJoonha ParkIuliia PavlovaEddy PeraltaPetro PetrytsaSaša PišotFranjo ProtJosé RasiaRita RiveraBenedicta Prihatin Dwi RiyantiAdil SamekinTelman SeisembekovDanielius SerapinasFabiola SillettiPrerna SharmaShanu ShuklaKatarzyna SkrzypińskaIva Poláčková ŠolcováOlga Solomontos-KountouriAdrian StanciuDelia StefenelLorena Cecilia López SteinmetzMaria StogianniJaimee StuartLaura Francisca SudarnotoKazumi SugimuraSadia SultanaAngela Oktavia SuryaniErgyul TairLucy Tavitian-ElmadjanLuciana Dutra ThomeFitim UkaRasa Pilkauskaitė ValickienėBrett WalterGuilherme Welter WendtPei-Jung YangEbrar YıldırımYue YuMaria Angela Mattar YunesMilene Zanoni da SilvaMaksim RudnevPublished in: Communications psychology (2023)
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.