Lockdown support, trust and COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs: Insights from the second national lockdown in France.

ABSTRACT: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, restrictive sanitary measures such as lockdowns have been implemented all around the world. Based on a representative sample of the population collected through an online cross-sectional survey, the goal of the study was to investigate the factors associated with lockdown agreement in France during the second general lockdown of fall 2020. More specifically, we aimed to investigate how trust in the government and COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs influenced lockdown agreement. Trust in the authorities and low adherence to conspiracy beliefs appeared as strong predictors of lockdown acceptance among our sample. Using a mediation analysis, we highlighted a significant indirect effect of trust in the authorities on lockdown agreement through the adherence to conspiracy

SUBMITTER: Kergall P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9472707 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature