scholarly journals Functional fear predicts public health compliance in the COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig A. Harper ◽  
Liam Satchell ◽  
Dean Fido ◽  
Robert Latzman
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Change ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Message Framing ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
Moral Foundations ◽  
Relevant Variables ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Public Message

In the current context of the global pandemic of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19), health professionals are working with social scientists to inform government policy on how to slow the spread of the virus. An increasing amount of social scientific research has looked at the role of public message framing, for instance, but few studies have thus far examined the role of individual differences in emotional and personality-based variables in predicting virus-mitigating behaviors. In this study we recruited a large international community sample (N = 324) to complete measures of self-perceived risk of contracting COVID-19, fear of the virus, moral foundations, political orientation, and behavior change in response to the pandemic. Consistently, the only predictor of positive behavior change (e.g., social distancing, improved hand hygiene) was fear of COVID-19, with no effect of politically-relevant variables. We discuss these data in relation to the potentially functional nature of fear in global health crises.

Designing messages for fluorosis mitigation behavior change: Role of message framing and perceived risk

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 280-297
Author(s):  
Nilamadhab Mohanty ◽  
Saswata N. Biswas ◽  
Debiprasad Mishra ◽  
Pratik Modi
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Change ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Message Framing

Political Orientations and Morality Judgments in the Turkish Context: Considering the Roles of the Needs for Cognition and Recognition

2020 ◽  
pp. 003329411989990
Author(s):  
Burcu Tekeş ◽  
E. Olcay Imamoğlu ◽  
Fatih Özdemir ◽  
Bengi Öner-Özkan
Keyword(s):  
Need For Cognition ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
Moral Foundations ◽  
Moral Foundations Theory ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Group Loyalty ◽  
Political Orientations ◽  
Collectivistic Culture

The aims of this study were to test: (a) the association of political orientations with morality orientations, specified by moral foundations theory, on a sample of young adults from Turkey, representing a collectivistic culture; and (b) the statistically mediating roles of needs for cognition and recognition in the links between political orientation and morality endorsements. According to the results (a) right-wing orientation and need for recognition were associated with all the three binding foundations (i.e., in-group/loyalty, authority/respect, and purity/sanctity); (b) right-wing orientation was associated with binding foundations also indirectly via the role of need for recognition; (c) regarding individualizing foundations, left-wing orientation and need for cognition were associated with fairness/reciprocity, whereas only gender was associated with harm/care; and (d) left-wing orientation was associated with fairness dimension also indirectly via the role of need for cognition. The cultural relevance of moral foundations theory as well as the roles of needs for cognition and recognition are discussed.

scholarly journals Framing Messages to Deal With the COVID-19 Crisis: The Role of Loss/Gain Frames and Content

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Gantiva ◽  
William Jiménez-Leal ◽  
Joan Urriago-Rayo
Keyword(s):  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Message Framing ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Choice Task ◽  
Health Messages ◽  
Intention To Adopt ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
The Media ◽  
Gain Frame

The goal of this study was to test the role of message framing for effective communication of self-care behaviors in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, contrasting health and economic-focused messages. We presented 319 participants with an unforced choice task where they had to select the message that they believed was more effective to increase intentions toward self-care behaviors, motivate self-care behaviors in others, increase perceived risk and enhance perceived message strength. Results showed that gain-frame health messages increased intention to adopt self-care behaviors and were judged to be stronger. Loss-framed health messages increased risk perception. When judging effectiveness for others, participants believed other people would be more sensitive to messages with an economic focus. These results can be used by governments to guide communication for the prevention of COVID-19 contagion in the media and social networks, where time and space for communicating information are limited.

scholarly journals Mask wearing behavior across routine and leisure activities during COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Guevara Beltran ◽  
Calvin Isch ◽  
Jessica Daphne Ayers ◽  
Joe Alcock ◽  
Jessica F. Brinkworth ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
Time Orientation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Risk Of Infection ◽  
Relative Contribution ◽  
Related Stress

Despite continued transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and sustained recommendations to wear protective face coverings, many people remained reluctant to comply throughout the early months of the pandemic. In the present study we surveyed an international cohort of participants on three different occasions from July to August, 2020 (N = 695) to examine the relative contribution of several factors in explaining variation in mask wearing behavior across a range of routine and leisure activities. We examine the role of COVID-19 prevalence, perceived risk of infection, COVID-19 related stress, demographics, time orientation, and several mask wearing attitudes and intentions. We find that COVID-19-related stress and the intention to protect oneself were reliably associated with more mask wearing across contexts, while other factors, such as anxiety caused by others’ mask wearing and the intention to wear masks to protect others, were context dependent. We discuss potential avenues for future research on possible positive and negative indirect effects of COVID-19-related stress, time orientation, and political orientation with regard to mask wearing behavior.

The relationship between closed-mindedness and militant extremism in a post-conflict society

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ljiljana B. Lazarevic ◽  
Goran Knezevic ◽  
Janko Mileta Međedović ◽  
Boban Petrović ◽  
Lazar Stankov
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Political Attitudes ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Structural Relationships ◽  
Relevant Variables ◽  
The Relationship

This study aimed to examine the role of socio-political attitudes and motivational tendencies supposed to mark closed-mindedness, as well as other relevant variables of individual differences (Disintegration, i.e., proneness to psychotic-like experiences/ behaviors and Death Anxiety), in the Militant Extremist Mindset (MEM). A community sample of 600 young respondents (Serbs, Bosniaks, and Albanians, aged 18-30) was recruited within a multiethnic region of Serbia that experienced armed conflict during the break-up of the former Yugoslavia. The best-fitted SEM model, incorporating measurement and structural relationships between the variables, showed that the latent factor of Closed-mindedness predicted all three aspects of MEM as well as Neighborhood Grudge, i.e., resentment toward neighboring ethnicities. The effects of Disintegration and Death Anxiety on MEM were entirely mediated by Closed-mindedness. Compared to previous findings, Closed-mindedness appears to represent the most important set of cognitive and motivational tendencies that channel protracted intergroup tensions into militant extremism.

Religiosity and Group-Binding Moral Concerns

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan P. LaBouff ◽  
Matthew Humphreys ◽  
Megan Johnson Shen
Keyword(s):  
Political Orientation ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Moral Foundations ◽  
Moral Intuitions ◽  
Moral Communities ◽  
Political Orientations

Research by Graham and Haidt (2010) suggests that beliefs, rituals, and other social aspects of religion establish moral communities. As such, they suggest religion is most strongly associated with the group-focused “binding” moral foundations of ingroup/loyalty, authority/respect, and purity/sanctity. Two studies tested this hypothesis, investigating the role of political orientation in these relationships. These studies supported our hypothesis that general religiosity is positively associated with each of the group-focused moral foundations, even when controlling for the role of political orientation. Further, we find religious and political orientations interact such that low-religious political liberals are least likely to endorse group-focused moral intuitions. Results are discussed in a moral foundations framework and consider the role of religiosity's association with political orientation and group-focused moral foundations.

Moral foundations explain unique variance in political ideology beyond resistance to change and opposition to equality

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (8) ◽  
pp. 1124-1138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Onurcan Yilmaz ◽  
S. Adil Saribay
Keyword(s):  
Political Ideology ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
Moral Foundations ◽  
Moral Foundations Theory ◽  
Unique Variance ◽  
The Core ◽  
Relevant Variables

Moral foundations theory (MFT), while inspiring much empirical work, has been the target of both methodological and theoretical criticism. One important criticism of MFT is that, in its attempt to explain variability in political ideology, it only repackages the core motives (resistance to change and opposition to equality) and does not actually provide additional explanatory potential. Indeed, some previous studies show that moral foundations do not explain variability in ideology beyond other relevant variables, and that the relation between moral foundations and political orientation is mediated by other ideological variables. In the present research, we examined whether moral foundations can explain variability beyond the core motives in samples from Turkey and the United States. Contrary to some previous findings, we found that moral foundations explain unique variance in general, social, and economic conservatism. These findings suggest that the moral foundations proposed by MFT cannot be reduced to other variables that have been used in the literature to measure ideological proclivities.

scholarly journals Moral Foundations, Political Orientation and Religiosity In Italy

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Di Battista ◽  
Monica Pivetti ◽  
Chiara Berti
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Moral Foundations ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Moral Foundation ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Italian Context

Background:This study investigates the role of political orientation and religiosity in Italy for moral foundations endorsement, in light of Haidt and Graham’sMoral Foundations Theory. This theory hypothesizes that moral systems are based on five dimensions (i.e.,Harm/care, Fairness/reciprocity, Ingroup/loyalty, Authority/respect, and Purity/sanctity) that, in turn, can be grouped into two broader dimensions (BindingandIndividualizing).Objective:We aim to explore and extend the moral foundation assumptions to the Italian context predicting greater endorsement of binding values among Italian Right-wingers as compared with Left-wingers. Given that the relations between politics and Catholic Church have always been intertwined in modern Italy, we also extend this line of inquiry by examining the role of religiosity.Method:Two hundred and forty-eight Italian participants filled out a self-report measure including theMoral Foundations Questionnaires.Results: Individuals attach considerable relevance to individualizing moral foundations rather than to binding moral foundations; conservatives and regular religious attenders attach more relevance to binding moral foundations as compared with individuals with a Left-wing political orientation and less religious people.Conclusions:Our results show that the Italians’ political orientation emerges as a significant element in the differential adoption of moral foundations. Furthermore, considering the historical and fundamental role of the Catholic religion in the Italian society and political life, our results confirm that binding values are particularly valued in groups such as practicing Catholic, where institutions, families, and authorities are valued.

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