Perceived risk, political polarization, and the willingness to follow COVID-19 mitigation guidelines.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Risk assessment and response is important for understanding human behavior. The divisive context surrounding the coronavirus pandemic inspires our exploration of risk perceptions and the polarization of mitigation practices (i.e., the degree to which the behaviors of people on the political "Left" diverge from those on the "Right"). Specifically, we investigate the extent to which the political polarization of willingness to comply with mitigation behaviors changes with risk perceptions.

Method

Analyses use data from two sources: an original dataset of Twitter posts and a nationally-representative survey. In the Twitter data, negative binomial regression models are used to predict mitigation intent measured using tweet counts. In the survey data, logit models predi

SUBMITTER: Block R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9161674 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature