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Trust predicts COVID-19 prescribed and discretionary behavioral intentions in 23 countries
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2021-03Registro en:
Pagliaro, Stefano; Sacchi, Simona; Pacilli, Maria Giuseppina; Brambilla, Marco; Lionetti, Francesca; et al.; Trust predicts COVID-19 prescribed and discretionary behavioral intentions in 23 countries; Public Library of Science; Plos One; 16; 3; 3-2021; 1-16
1932-6203
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Autor
Pagliaro, Stefano
Sacchi, Simona
Pacilli, Maria Giuseppina
Brambilla, Marco
Lionetti, Francesca
Bettache, Karim
Bianchi, Mauro
Biella, Marco
Bonnot, Virginie
Boza, Mihaela
Butera, Fabrizio
Batur, Suzan Ceylan
Chong, Kristy
Chopova, Tatiana
Crimston, Charlie R.
Alvarez, Belen
Cuadrado, Isabel
Ellemers, Naomi
Formanowicz, Magdalena
Graupmann, Verena
Gkinopoulos, Theofilos
Jeong, Evelyn Hye Kyung
Lahti, Inga Jasinskaja
Jetten, Jolanda
Bin, Kabir Muhib
Mao, Yanhui
McCoy, Christine
Mehnaz, Farah
Minescu, Anca
Sirlopu, David
Simic, Andrej
Travaglino, Giovanni
Uskul, Ayse K.
Zanetti, Cinzia
Zinn, Anna
Zubieta, Elena Mercedes
Resumen
The worldwide spread of a new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) since December 2019 has posed a severe threat to individuals well-being. While the world at large is waiting that the released vaccines immunize most citizens, public health experts suggest that, in the meantime, it is only through behavior change that the spread of COVID-19 can be controlled. Importantly, the required behaviors are aimed not only at safeguarding one s own health. Instead, individuals are asked to adapt their behaviors to protect the community at large. This raises the question of which social concerns and moral principles make people willing to do so. We considered in 23 countries (N = 6948) individuals willingness to engage in prescribed and discretionary behaviors, as well as country-level and individual-level factors that might drive such behavioral intentions. Results from multilevel multiple regressions, with country as the nesting variable, showed that publicized number of infections were not significantly related to individual intentions to comply with the prescribed measures and intentions to engage in discretionary prosocial behaviors. Instead, psychological differences in terms of trust in government, citizens, and in particular toward science predicted individuals behavioral intentions across countries. The more people endorsed moral principles of fairness and care (vs. loyalty and authority), the more they were inclined to report trust in science, which, in turn, statistically predicted prescribed and discretionary behavioral intentions. Results have implications for the type of intervention and public communication strategies that should be most effective to induce the behavioral changes that are needed to control the COVID-19 outbreak.