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

Block, Ray; Burnham, Michael; Kahn, Kayla; Peng, Rachel X.; Seeman, Jeremy; Seto, Christopher H

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115091

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“…Dominating the Prime Minister’s rhetoric in 2020 [ 64 ], and underlying the Commonwealth’s attacks on the legitimacy of state public health measures, was a predisposition to emphasise the impact of restrictions on business, and to frame the pandemic response as a trade-off between public health and the economy, and the general tendency of conservative governments and people of a conservative inclination to be suspicious of any restrictions on personal freedoms [ 65 ]. The research evidence for an economy-health trade-off is weak, and still influenced by short-run effects [ 66 , 67 ] and the methodological difficulty of disentangling self-imposed restrictions and those imposed by government.…”

Section: Effective National Leadershipmentioning

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Public Health Management of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Australia: The Role of the Morrison Government

Duckett

2022

IJERPH

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The Australian Commonwealth government has four health-related responsibilities during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: to provide national leadership; to manage external borders; to protect residents of residential aged care facilities; and to approve, procure and roll-out tests and vaccines. State governments are responsible for determining what public health measures are appropriate and implementing them—including managing the border quarantine arrangements and the testing, tracing, and isolation regime—and managing the hospital response. This paper analyses the national government’s response to the pandemic and discusses why it has attracted a thesaurus of negative adjectives.

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Section: Effective National Leadershipmentioning

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Public Health Management of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Australia: The Role of the Morrison Government

Duckett

2022

IJERPH

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“…In the event of a major public health emergency, those who perceive themselves to be at high risk for infectious diseases are more likely to take proactive actions such as maintaining personal hygiene ( 14 ), wearing masks ( 15 ), and vaccinating ( 16 ); that is, the higher the PR of an individual is, the more positive their PB will be during the COVID-19 pandemic. An online U.S. survey confirmed this action, and people even put aside their political inclinations and followed official recommendations when they perceived themselves to be at a higher risk of contracting COVID-19 ( 17 ). Further research found that women ( 18 ), middle-aged individuals, and older individuals ( 19 ) showed higher levels of PR and PB.…”

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How perceived risk influences college students' preventive behavior: Novel data of COVID-19 campus lockdown from Wuhan, China

Zhang

Cheng²,

Li³

2023

Front. Public Health

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Following preventive behaviors is a key measure to protect people from infectious diseases. Protection motivation theory (PMT) suggests that perceived risk motivates individuals to take protective measures. The COVID-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented stress to the public, and changes in perceived risk may be more pronounced among college students than among other groups due to the related campus lockdown. With 1,119 college students recruited as research subjects, a quantitative research was conducted in Wuhan, China, to deduce the relationship between the perceived risk and preventive behavior of college students, as well as between the mediation effect of individual affect and the moderating effect of physical exercise. The results showed that the preventive behavior of college students was significantly affected by perceived risk, and both positive affect and negative affect played a mediating role between perceived risk and preventive behavior. Specifically, positive affect aided the relationship between perceived risk and preventive behavior, negative affect was detrimental to their relationship, and the mediation effect of positive affect is significantly higher than that of negative affect. Furthermore, physical exercise played a moderating role in the mediation effects of positive affect and negative affect. Therefore, appropriate measures should be taken to strengthen Chinese college students' perceived risk and provide them with corresponding guidance. The importance of physical exercise should also be emphasized to help college students with low perceived risk reduce negative affect, increase positive affect, and promote their preventive behavior.

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“…A close review of the current CMIS literature shows that political ideology has not been explored in CMIS and its empirical research, although this pandemic has been politically polarized. Recent articles suggest that people's attitudes and responses to the pandemic differ across political parties in the United States (Block et al, 2022;Milligan, 2020;Roberts, 2020). Additionally, this pandemic has been reported differently by the Republican and Democratic parties' media (Jurkowitz and Mitchell, 2020;Moon et al, 2021).…”

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Political ideology and differences in seeking COVID-19 information on the internet: examining the comprehensive model of information seeking

Jin

2023

OIR

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PurposeGuided by the Comprehensive Model of Information Seeking (CMIS), this article identifies significant predictors that impact individuals seeking COVID-19 information. People with different political ideologies read contradictory information about the COVID-19 pandemic. However, how political ideology may affect COVID-19 information seeking remains unclear. This study explores the major information channels for individuals with different political ideologies to seek COVID-19 information. It further examines how political ideologies influence CMIS's effectiveness in predicting online health information-seeking.Design/methodology/approachThis study collected 394 completed survey responses from adults living in the United States after the 2020 lockdown. ANOVA analyses revealed the differences in salience, beliefs, information carrier characteristics, utilities and information-seeking actions between Liberals and Conservatives. Regression analyses discovered variables that predict Liberals' and Conservatives' online health information seeking.FindingsResults suggest that the internet is the top channel for COVID-19 information seeking. Compared to Conservatives, Liberals report more COVID-19 information-seeking actions. Liberals also express stronger salience, perceive higher trustworthiness of online COVID-19 information, are more likely to think of seeking online COVID-19 information as useful and helpful and report more substantial efficacy to mitigate the risk. Most CMIS variables predict Liberals' information seeking; however, only salience significantly predicts Conservatives' information seeking.Originality/valueThis article indicates that CMIS should include political ideology to refine its prediction of information seeking. These findings offer practical implications for designing health messages, enhancing information distribution and reducing the public's uncertainty.Peer reviewThe peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/OIR-08-2022-0436.

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

Cited by 18 publications

References 78 publications

Public Health Management of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Australia: The Role of the Morrison Government

Public Health Management of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Australia: The Role of the Morrison Government

How perceived risk influences college students' preventive behavior: Novel data of COVID-19 campus lockdown from Wuhan, China

Political ideology and differences in seeking COVID-19 information on the internet: examining the comprehensive model of information seeking

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