TY - UNPB
T1 - The Political Dimension of COVID-19 Health-Protective Behavior in the United States
AU - Stroebe, Wolfgang
AU - vanDellen, Michelle
AU - Abakoumkin, Georgios
AU - Lemay, Edward
AU - Agostini, Max
AU - Belanger, Jocelyn J.
AU - Gützkow, Ben
AU - Keller, Anita
AU - Kreienkamp, Jannis
AU - Reitsema, Anne Margit
AU - Hanum Abdul Khaiyom, Jamilah
AU - Akkas, Handan
AU - Almenara, Carlos A
AU - Kurapov, Anton
AU - Atta, Mohsin
AU - Bagci, S. Cigdem
AU - Basel, Sima
AU - Kida, Berisha
AU - Jeronimus, Bertus F.
AU - Buttrick, Nicholas
AU - Krause, Joshua
AU - Myroniuk Myroniuk, Solomiia
AU - Kutlaca, Maja
AU - Koc, Yasin
AU - Kruglanski, Arie W.
AU - McCabe, Kira
AU - Lantos, Nora Anna
AU - Park, Joonha
AU - Nisa, Claudia
AU - Osin, Evgeny
AU - Pica, Gennaro
AU - Rees, Jonas
AU - Resta, Elena
AU - van Breen, Jolien
AU - van Lissa, Caspar J.
AU - Zheng, Bang
AU - van Veen, Kees
AU - Leander, Pontus
PY - 2020/11
Y1 - 2020/11
N2 - According to health behavior theories, perceived vulnerability to a health threat and perceived effectiveness of recommended health-protective behaviors determine motivation to follow these recommendations. Because the U.S. President Trump and U.S. conservative politicians downplayed the risk and seriousness of contracting COVID-19 and the effectiveness of recommended actions, we predicted that politically conservative Americans would be less likely than liberals to enact recommended health-protective behaviors. We further predicted that these effects would be mediated by perceived health risk, perceived infection severity and perceived action effectiveness. In two studies of U.S. residents, political conservatism was inversely associated with perceived health risk and enactment of health-protective behaviors. Furthermore, perceived risk of infection (both studies), perceived severity of infection (Study 2), and perceived effectiveness of behaviors (Study 2), mediated effects of political orientation on health-protective behaviors. These effects were stronger for participants living in the U.S. (N=10,923) than outside the U.S. (N=51,986).
AB - According to health behavior theories, perceived vulnerability to a health threat and perceived effectiveness of recommended health-protective behaviors determine motivation to follow these recommendations. Because the U.S. President Trump and U.S. conservative politicians downplayed the risk and seriousness of contracting COVID-19 and the effectiveness of recommended actions, we predicted that politically conservative Americans would be less likely than liberals to enact recommended health-protective behaviors. We further predicted that these effects would be mediated by perceived health risk, perceived infection severity and perceived action effectiveness. In two studies of U.S. residents, political conservatism was inversely associated with perceived health risk and enactment of health-protective behaviors. Furthermore, perceived risk of infection (both studies), perceived severity of infection (Study 2), and perceived effectiveness of behaviors (Study 2), mediated effects of political orientation on health-protective behaviors. These effects were stronger for participants living in the U.S. (N=10,923) than outside the U.S. (N=51,986).
KW - Covid
KW - Coronavirus
KW - Politics
KW - USA
UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/345435087_The_Political_Dimension_of_COVID-19_Health-Protective_Behavior_in_the_United_States
M3 - Working paper
BT - The Political Dimension of COVID-19 Health-Protective Behavior in the United States
ER -