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Institutional Trust in Times of Corona
During the corona pandemic, governments of all countries appealed strongly to the trust of their populations by implementing drastic social and economic measures to prevent the spread of the virus. This study seeks to understand mechanisms that influence the level of institutional trust at the time of the corona pandemic. We are specifically interested in how three explanatory factors (socioeconomic status, experienced economic insecurity and dissatisfaction with the implemented corona policies) can, in mutual association, explain differences in institutional trust. This study is based on data from a large-scale panel survey on the social impact of COVID-19, carried out by Kieskompas research agency (N=22,696). Using a serial mediation analysis, we show that SES has both a direct and indirect effect on the level of institutional trust. People with higher SES experience less economic insecurity and have less dissatisfaction with the corona policies and, partly as a result of this, stronger institutional trust. It is also true that economic insecurity increases dissatisfaction with the corona policies and, partly as a result of this, weakens the level of trust
Social Distancing and COVID-19: Factors Associated With Compliance With Social Distancing Norms in Spain
This article describes patterns of compliance with social distancing measures among
the Spanish population during the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. It
identifies several factors associated with higher or lower compliance with recommended
measures of social distancing. This research is part of a 67-country study, titled
the International COVID-19 study on Social & Moral Psychology, in which we use a
Spanish dataset. Participants were residents in Spain aged 18 or above. The sample
comprises 1,090 respondents, weighted to be representative of the Spanish population.
Frequencies, correlations, bivariate analysis, and six models based on hierarchical
multiple regressions were applied. The main finding is that most Spaniards are compliant
with established guidelines of social distance during the pandemic (State of Alarm,
before May 2020). Variables associated more with lower levels of compliance with
these standards were explored. Six hierarchical multiple regression models found that
compliance with social distance measures has a multifactorial explanation (R
2 between
20.4 and 49.1%). Sociodemographic factors, personal hygiene patterns, and the
interaction between personal hygiene patterns and the support for political measures
related to the coronavirus brought significant effects on the regression models. Less
compliance was also associated with beliefs in some specific conspiracy theories with
regard to COVID-19 or general conspiracy mentality (Conspiracy Mentality Questionnaire,
CMQ), consumption patterns of traditional mass media (television, paper newspapers,
magazines, and radio) and modern means to get informed (online digital newspapers,
blogs, and social networks), political ideology, vote, trust in institutions, and political
identification. Among the future lines of action in preventing the possible outbreak of
the virus, we suggest measures to reinforce trust in official information, mainly linked to
reducing the influence of disinformation and conspiracy theories parallel to the pandemic
National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic (vol 13, 517, 2022) : National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic (Nature Communications, (2022), 13, 1, (517), 10.1038/s41467-021-27668-9)
Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2022.In this article the author name ‘Agustin Ibanez’ was incorrectly written as ‘Augustin Ibanez’. The original article has been corrected.Peer reviewe
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