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

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  • 1 Istanbul Policy Center, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey. [email protected]
  • 2 Department of Psychology, MEF University, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 3 Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
  • 4 Social Psychology Department, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Doha, Qatar
  • 5 Department of Sociology and Social Policy, Lingnan University, Hong Kong SAR, China
  • 6 Faculty of Medicine, Syrian Private University, Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic
  • 7 United Private School, Athaiba, Oman
  • 8 Universidad César Vallejo, Trujillo, Peru
  • 9 Department of Physical Education, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Ukraine
  • 10 Department of Psychology, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines
  • 11 Theological School, Church of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
  • 12 General Psychology Chair, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia
  • 13 Faculty of Psychology and Education, University of Malaysia Sabah, Sabah, Malaysia
  • 14 Department of Educational Psychology and Health Psychology, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
  • 15 Astana Medical University, Astana, Kazakhstan
  • 16 University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
  • 17 Clinical Psychology Department, Albizu University, Miami, FL, USA
  • 18 Lviv State University of Physical Culture, Lviv, Ukraine
  • 19 Institute of Psychology, University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland
  • 20 Department of Psychology, Universidad Central Marta Abreu de Las Villas, Santa Clara, Cuba
  • 21 Department of Social Sciences and Communication, Transilvania University of Brasov, Brasov, Romania
  • 22 Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
  • 23 Faculty of Psychology, Cooperative University of Colombia, Santa Marta, Colombia
  • 24 Psychology Department, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
  • 25 Higher Medical School, University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bitola, North Macedonia
  • 26 National Economics University, Hanoi, Vietnam
  • 27 Iberoamerican University, Mexico City, Mexico
  • 28 Department of Life Sciences, College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Brunel University, London, UK
  • 29 Psychology Department, Universidad Francisco Marroquín, Guatemala City, Guatemala
  • 30 Faculty of Education, Universidad de los Andes, Santiago, Chile
  • 31 School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
  • 32 Federal University of Parana, Curitiba, Brazil
  • 33 Faculty for Psychology, Fern Universität, Hagen, Germany
  • 34 Faculty of Education, Beit Berl College, Kfar Sava, Israel
  • 35 Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Skopje, North Macedonia
  • 36 Psychological Research Institute (IIPsi), National University of Córdoba - CONICET, Córdoba, Argentina
  • 37 Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Proyecto Aigle Guatemala, Cdad. de Guatemala, Guatemala
  • 38 Department of General, Experimental, Developmental, and Health Psychology, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Sofia, Bulgaria
  • 39 Psychology Department, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia
  • 40 Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
  • 41 University Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia
  • 42 Department of Public Health and Informatics, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • 43 Dimitri Uznadze Institute of Psychology, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
  • 44 Department of Psychology, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • 45 Center for Research in Psychology and Human Well-being, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi Selangor, Malaysia
  • 46 School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
  • 47 South Kazakhstan Medical Academy, Shymkent, Kazakhstan
  • 48 School of Human Ecology, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
  • 49 University of Delhi, Delhi, India
  • 50 Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
  • 51 Center for Evaluation Studies, Educational Research Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • 52 Institute for Social Science Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang-Selangor, Malaysia
  • 53 Departamento de Psicología, Universidad de Atacama, Copiapó, Chile
  • 54 Department of Psychology, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
  • 55 Department of Education, University of Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
  • 56 Department of Psychology, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan
  • 57 Carrera de Psicología, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru
  • 58 Department of Youth and Family, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
  • 59 The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Chicago, IL, USA
  • 60 Department of Healthcare, Faculty of Health, University of Vlora, Vlore, Albania
  • 61 Department of Applied Psychology, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
  • 62 Department of Educational Psychology and Andragogy, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
  • 63 School of Psychology, Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, Ambato, Ecuador
  • 64 University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
  • 65 Kabul University of Medical Sciences, Kabul, Afghanistan
  • 66 Department of Psychology, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
  • 67 REMIT - Research on Economics, Management and Information Technologies, Universidade Portucalense, Porto, Portugal
  • 68 Universidad del Norte, Division of Health Sciences, Barranquilla, Colombia
  • 69 Health Promotion Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
  • 70 Social Sciences Doctoral and Master Program, Don Bosco University, Antiguo Cuscatlan, El Salvador
  • 71 Núcleo Científico-Tecnológico en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile
  • 72 Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, Bangalore, India
  • 73 School of Management, NUCB Business School, Nagoya, Japan
  • 74 Medicine School, Mother and Teacher Pontifical Catholic University, Santiago, Dominican Republic
  • 75 Department of Physical Education and Rehabilitation, Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University, Ternopil, Ukraine
  • 76 Institute for Kinesiology Research, Science and Research Centre Koper, Koper, Slovenia
  • 77 Faculty of Psychology, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
  • 78 School of Liberal Arts, M. Narikbayev KAZGUU University, Astana, Kazakhstan
  • 79 Institute of Psychology, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania
  • 80 Clinical Psychology Department, Institute of Human Behavior and Allied Sciences, Delhi, India
  • 81 Indian Institute of Management Indore, Indore, India
  • 82 Data and Research on Society, GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Mannheim, Germany
  • 83 Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania
  • 84 Department of Culture Studies, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
  • 85 United Nations University, Macau, Macau SAR
  • 86 Institute for Population and Human Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
  • 87 Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
  • 88 University of Prishtina "Hasan Prishtina", Prishtina, Kosovo
  • 89 Western Paraná State University, Francisco Beltrão, Brazil
  • 90 Graduate Institute of Social Work, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan
  • 91 Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 92 Centre for Research in Child Development, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
  • 93 Universidade Salgado de Oliveira, Niterói, Brazil
  • 94 Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa (UEPG), Ponta Grossa, Parana, Brazil
  • 95 Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Commun Psychol, 2023 Dec 15;1(1):43.
PMID: 39242865 DOI: 10.1038/s44271-023-00046-5

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.

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