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Empathy, Fear of Disease and Support for COVID-19 Containment Behaviors: Evidence from 34 Countries on the Moderating Role of Governmental Trust (preprint)
Arzu Karakulak; Beyza Tepe; Radosveta Dimitrova; Mohamed Abdelrahman; Plamen Akaliyski; Rana Rana Alaseel; Yousuf Alkamali; Azzam Amin; Andrii Andres; John Aruta; Hrant Avanesyan; Norzihan Ayub; Maria Bacikova-Sleskova; Raushan Baikanova; Batoul Bakkar; Sunčica Bartoluci; David Benitez; Ivanna Bodnar; Aidos Bolatov; Judyta Borchet; Ksenija Bosnar; Yunier Broche-Pérez; Carmen Buzea; Rosalinda Cassibba; Bin-Bin Chen; Dương Công Doanh; Alejandra Domínguez-Espinosa; Nelli Ferenczi; Regina Fernández-Morales; Jorge Gaete; Yiqun Gan; Wassim Gharz Edine; Suely Giolo; Rubia Carla Giordani; Maria-Therese Friehs; Shahar Gindi; Biljana Gjoneska; Juan Godoy; Maria del Pilar Grazioso; Camellia Hancheva; Given Hapunda; Shogo Hihara; Mohd. Husain; Md. Islam; Anna Janovská; Nino Javakhishvili; Veljko Jovanović; Russell Kabir; Nor Ba’yah Abdul Kadir; Johannes Karl; Darko Katović; Zhumaly Kauyzbay; Tinka Kawashima; Maria Kazmierczak; Richa Khanna; Meetu Khosla; Martina Klicperová; Ana Kozina; Steven Krauss; Rodrigo Landabur; Katharina Lefringhausen; Aleksandra Lewandowska-Walter; Yun-Hsia Liang; Danny Lizarzaburu Aguinaga; Ana Makashvili; Sadia Malik; Marta de la C. Martín-Carbonell; Denisse Manrique-Millones; Stefanos Mastrotheodoros; Breeda McGrath; Enkeleint Mechili; Marinés Mejía; Samson Mhizha; Justyna Michalek-Kwiecien; Diana Miconi; Fatema Mohsen; Rodrigo Moreta-Herrera; Camila Muhl; Mriya Muradyan; Pasquale Musso; Andrej Naterer; Arash Nemat; Félix Neto; Joana Neto; Luz Alonso Palacio; Hassan Okati; Carlos Orellana; Ligia Orellana; Sushanta Mishra; Joonha Park; Iuliia Pavlova; Eddy Peralta; Petro Petrytsa; Saša Pišot; Franjo Prot; José Rasia; Gordana Ristevska-Dimitrovska; Rita Rivera; Benedicta Riyanti; Adil Samekin; Telman Seisembekov; Danielius Serapinas; Fabiola Silletti; Prerna Sharma; Shanu Shukla; Katarzyna Skrzypińska; Iva Poláčková Šolcová; Olga Solomontos-Kountouri; Adrian Stanciu; Delia Stefenel; Lorena Cecilia López Steinmetz; Maria Stoginani; Jaimee Stuart; Laura Sudarnoto; Kazumi Sugimura; Mst. Sultana; Angela Suryani; Ergyul Tair; Lucy Tavitian-Elmadjan; Luciana Thome; Fitim Uka; Rasa Pilkauskaitė Valickienė; Brett Walter; Guilherme Wendt; Pei-Jung Yang; Ebrar Yıldırım; Yue Yu; Maria Angela Yunes; Milene Zanoni da Silva.
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Preprint in English | PREPRINT-RESEARCHSQUARE | ID: ppzbmed-10.21203.rs.3.rs-2412449.v1
ABSTRACT
The current study investigated the motives that underlie support for COVID-19 preventive behaviorsin a large, cross-cultural 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 behaviors would be moderated by the individual-level and country-level trust in the government. Results suggest that the association between fear of disease and support for COVID-19 preventive behaviors 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 was high, but this moderation was only found at individual-level scores of governmental trust. We discuss how both fear and empathy motivations to support preventive COVID-19 behaviors may be shaped by socio-cultural context, and outline how the present findings may contribute to a better understanding of collective action during global crises.
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Full text: Available Collection: Preprints Database: PREPRINT-RESEARCHSQUARE Main subject: Cognition Disorders / COVID-19 Language: English Year: 2022 Document Type: Preprint

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Full text: Available Collection: Preprints Database: PREPRINT-RESEARCHSQUARE Main subject: Cognition Disorders / COVID-19 Language: English Year: 2022 Document Type: Preprint