@article{Karakulak_A-2023_169492,
title = {Trust in government moderates the association between fear of COVID-19 as well as empathic concern and preventive behaviour},
author = {Karakulak, A. and Tepe, B. and Dimitrova, R. and Abdelrahman, M. and Akaliyski, P. and Alaseel, R. and Alkamali, Y. and Amin, A. and Lizarzaburu-Aguinaga, D. and Andres, A. and Aruta, J. and Assiotis, M. and Avanesyan, H. and Ayub, N. and Bacikova-Sleskova, M. and Baikanova, R. and Bakkar, B. and Bartoluci, S. and Benitez, D. and Bodnar, I. and Bolatov, A. and Borchet, J. and Bosnar, K. and Broche-Pérez, Y. and Buzea, C. and Cassibba, R. and Martín-Carbonell, M. and Chen, B. and Ristevska Dimitrovska, G. and Duong, C. and Dominguez Espinosa, A. and Edine, W. and Ferenczi, N. and Fernández-Morales, R. and Gaete, J. and Gan, Y. and Giolo, S. and Formighieri Giordani, R. and Friehs, M. and Gindi, S. and Gjoneska, B. and Godoy, J. and del Pilar Grazioso, M. and Doncheva Hancheva, C. and Hapunda, G. and Hihara, S. and Husain, M. and Islam, M. and Janovská, A. and Javakhishvili, N. and Jovanović, V. and Kabir, R. and Kadir, N. and Karl, J. and Katović, D. and Kauyzbay, Z. and Delakorda Kawashima, T. and Kaźmierczak, M. and Khanna, R. and Khosla, M. and Klicperová-Baker, M. and Kozina, A. and Krauss, S. and Landabur, R. and Lefringhausen, K. and Lewandowska-Walter, A. and Liang, Y. and Makashvili, A. and Malik, S. and Manrique-Millones, D. and Mastrotheodoros, S. and McGrath, B. and Mechili, E. and Mejía, M. and Mhizha, S. and Michałek-Kwiecień, J. and Miconi, D. and Mohsen, F. and Moreta-Herrera, R. and Muhl, C. and Muradyan, M. and Musso, P. and Naterer, A. and Nemat, A. and Neto, F. and Neto, J. and Alonso Palacio, L. and Okati-Aliabad, H. and Orellana, C. and Orellana, L. and Mishra, S. and Park, J. and Pavlova, I. and Peralta, E. and Petrytsa, P. and Pišot, S. and Prot, F. and Rasia, J. and Rivera, R. and Riyanti, B. and Samekin, A. and Seisembekov, T. and Serapinas, D. and Silletti, F. and Sharma, P. and Shukla, S. and Skrzypińska, K. and Poláčková Šolcová, I. and Solomontos-Kountouri, O. and Stanciu, A. and Ştefenel, D. and López Steinmetz, L. and Stogianni, M. and Stuart, J. and Sudarnoto, L. and Sugimura, K. and Sultana, S. and Suryani, A. and Tair, E. and Tavitian-Elmadjian, L. and Thome, L. and Uka, F. and Pilkauskaitė Valickienė, R. and Walter, B. and Wendt, G. and Yang, P. and Yıldırım, E. and Yu, Y. and Mattar Yunes, M. and Zanoni da Silva, M. and Rudnev, M.},
month = {dec},
year = {2023},
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.},
volume = {1},
journal = {Communications Psychology},
publisher = {Springer Nature},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-023-00046-5},
}
