A time for moral actions: Moral identity, morality-as-cooperation and moral circles predict support of collective action to fight the COVID-19 pandemic in an international sample

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Nezlek, John
Boggio, Paulo S.
Alfano, Mark
Azevedo, Flavio
Capraro, Valerio
Cichocka, Aleksandra
Pärnamets, Philip
Rego, Gabriel Gaudencio
Sampaio, Waldir M.
Sjåstad, Hallgeir
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2024-01
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Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
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1
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27
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178-195
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1368-4302
1461-7188
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2024-01-19
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Understanding what factors are linked to public health behavior in a global pandemic is critical to mobilizing an effective public health response. Although public policy and health messages are often framed through the lens of individual benefit, many of the behavioral strategies needed to combat a pandemic require individual sacrifices to benefit the collective welfare. Therefore, we examined the relationship between individuals’ morality and their support for public health measures. In a large-scale study with samples from 68 countries worldwide (Study 1; N = 46,576), we found robust evidence that moral identity, morality-as-cooperation, and moral circles are each positively related to people’s willingness to engage in public health behaviors and policy support. Together, these moral dispositions accounted for 9.8%, 10.2%, and 6.2% of support for limiting contact, improving hygiene, and supporting policy change, respectively. These morality variables (Study 2) and Schwartz’s values dimensions (Study 3) were also associated with behavioral responses across 42 countries in the form of reduced physical mobility during the pandemic. These results suggest that morality may help mobilize citizens to support public health policy.
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cooperation
COVID-19
moral circles
moral identity
morality
pandemic
public health
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