Country's value priorities in health crisis: How dominant societal motivations shape COVID-19 severity

ABSTRACT: This paper presents two comprehensive studies examining how Schwartz's human values dimensions at the country level predict COVID-19 pandemic severity. Study 1 aggregated survey data across 89 countries from the European Social Survey and World Values Survey to assess societal-level conservation versus openness to change (CON-OTC) and self-enhancement versus self-transcendence (SE-ST) value-continuums. Study 2 developed an innovative archival measurement approach using 10 indicators to estimate these value dimensions for over 180 countries. Both studies employed multilevel modeling to test the relationships between country-level values and COVID-19 severity, measured through epidemiological indicators of transmission speed, case fatality rate, infection prevalence and mortality burden. Res

SUBMITTER: Ma M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10474233 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature