Covid-19 conspiracy beliefs and containment-related behaviour: The role of political trust.

ABSTRACT: The roles of conspiracy beliefs and political trust for public health behaviour have seldomly been studied prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, we tested whether conspiracy beliefs affect containment-related behaviour in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic and whether this relationship is mediated by political trust, preference for saving the economy or for saving lives. The data were collected at two time points, at the beginning of the epidemic and after the state of emergency was introduced. The sample consisted of 790 adults from Serbia (349 at time 1 and 441 at time 2), of which around 60% were female, with a mean age of around 33. The results indicate that holding more conspiracy beliefs is related to less adherence to containment-related behaviour, both directly and indirect

SUBMITTER: Karic T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7843105 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature