Coping strategies and belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories

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Molenda, Zuzanna
Marchlewska, Marta
Karakula, Adam
Szczepańska, Dagmara
Rogoza, Marta
Green, Ricky
Cisłak-Wójcik, Aleksandra
Douglas, Karen M.
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2023-09-05
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British Journal of Social Psychology
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1-41
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0144-6665
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37668297/
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Conspiracy beliefs have been related to aversive emotional experiences often accompanying major world events and have also been linked to maladaptive ways of coping with stress. In this research, we examined how different coping strategies (i.e. self-sufficient, social-support, avoidance and religious) predicted the adoption of COVID-19 conspiracy theories. In two studies (Study 1, n = 1000 and Study 2, n = 616) conducted among Polish participants, we found that avoidance and religious coping were positively linked to COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs. In Study 1, conspiracy beliefs also mediated the positive relationships between avoidance and religious coping and adherence to safety and self-isolation guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Study 2 additionally showed that the relationship between fear, induced by reading threatening news on COVID-19, and conspiracy beliefs was the strongest among those high in avoidance coping. These studies highlight the role of coping strategies in the adoption of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs.
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COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs
avoidance coping
coping strategies
religious coping
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