Political trust in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: a meta-analysis of 67 studies

Devine, Daniel; Valgarðsson, Viktor Orri; Smith, Jeffery S.; Jennings, Will; Vettimo, Michele Scotto di; Bunting, Hannah; McKay, Lawrence

doi:10.1080/13501763.2023.2169741

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“…It was found that political polarization leads to a decrease in compliant behavior and vaccination acceptance (e.g., Dolman et al, 2023;Pennycook et al, 2022). A recent meta-analysis supported the mentioned cultural uniqueness, as it found that the link between trust in government and compliance in the United States was in the opposite direction during the presidency of Donald Trump (Devine et al, 2023). Hence, taking into account specific normative and psycho-socio-cultural factors seems desirable while interpreting cross-country differences in perceived legitimacy in other cultural contexts.…”

Section: Limitations and Future Directionsmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…Among them, trust in the government and the trustworthiness of its representatives were linked to desirable compliant behavior (Blackburn, Han, Gelpí, et al, 2023; Q. Han et al, 2021; Jørgensen et al, 2021; Lieberoth et al, 2021; Nivette et al, 2021; Shanka & Menebo, 2022; for a meta-analysis, see Devine et al, 2023) and, subsequently, to a decrease in COVID-19 mortality rates (Gavresi et al, 2023).…”

Section: The Legitimacy Of Government Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Perceived legitimacy of antipandemic measures: Findings from west and East Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia at the peak of the COVID-19 crisis.

Lacko,

Horák,

Klicperová-Baker

et al. 2023

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law

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This interdisciplinary study examines the cross-cultural differences between the perceived legitimacy of antipandemic measures during the peak of the COVID-19 crisis in three Central European countries and four independent samples (West Germany, East Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia). A total of 2,752 participants completed a newly developed seven-item scale that inquired whether governmental regulations were perceived as fair, justified, and based on science and whether the government considered citizens’ needs and the interests of their country, etc. The analysis was done within the structural equation modeling framework. Scalar measurement invariance was successfully established between the studied countries, and a subsequent latent means comparison supported the hypothesis that German respondents would report higher legitimacy of the governmental antipandemic regulations than respondents from the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Additionally, as expected, the participants from the new German Länder (former East Germany) also manifested a consistent tendency to view governmental regulations as less legitimate than their Western fellow citizens. The results are discussed in terms of normative factors (i.e., the qualities of the authority which adopted the antipandemic measures, the qualities of the procedure through which these measures were adopted, and the qualities of the measures themselves), psycho-socio-cultural factors (e.g., postcommunist syndrome), and the influence of demographic variables.

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Section: Limitations and Future Directionsmentioning

confidence: 93%

Section: The Legitimacy Of Government Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Perceived legitimacy of antipandemic measures: Findings from west and East Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia at the peak of the COVID-19 crisis.

Lacko,

Horák,

Klicperová-Baker

et al. 2023

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law

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“…Low political trust also undermines support for strong policies such as quarantine and mandated vaccination by raising fear of abuse of power and unfair treatment of citizens (Taylor-Clark et al, 2005; see also Leavitt, 2003;Siegrist & Zingg, 2014). During the COVID-19 pandemic lower political trust was related to lower acceptance of and compliance with health-protective policies (Devine et al, 2021(Devine et al, , 2023Han et al, 2023;Pagliaro et al, 2021).…”

Section: Political Trust and Compliancementioning

confidence: 99%

Compliance in crisis: Concern, trust and distrustful complacency in the COVID‐19 pandemic

Lalot

Abrams

Jessop³

et al. 2023

Social & Personality Psych

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Two studies tested a distrustful complacency hypothesis, according to which either concern or political trust would be enough to sustain law‐abiding attitudes and compliance with health‐protective policies during the COVID‐19 pandemic; but the absence of both concern and trust would result in markedly lower support and compliance. Study 1 supported this hypothesis with NatCen nationally representative sample of Great Britain (N = 2413; weighted regression analyses), focussing on law‐abiding attitudes. Study 2 (preregistered) replicated these findings with a representative sample (N = 1523) investigating support for COVID‐19 policies and compliant behaviour. Participants who were less concerned about the consequences of the pandemic (for themselves and for others) and simultaneously less trustful of the government expressed weaker law‐abiding attitudes and reported less compliance with COVID‐19 restrictions. These findings have implications for policy and public health strategies in time of crisis.

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“…Trust in people around and in politicians and government increases vaccination uptakes (Thornton, 2022) and decreases vaccine hesitancy (Lalot et al, 2022). Although in the case of close others, people sometimes may feel more comfortable not to fully adhere to health containment behaviors, because they trust their own family members (Stefaniak et al, 2022), more generally interpersonal trust towards people as members of a community and towards politicians that govern the communities as an essential part of democratic governance increases vaccine uptakes (Bollyky et al, 2023;Devine et al, 2023;Tagat & Kapoor, 2023). Beyond trust towards other people and politicians/government, vaccine uptakes were also positively predicted by trust towards institutions and organizations, such as the World Health Organization, worldwide (Chen et al, 2022;De Freitas et al, 2021), as well as trust towards health professionals (Hara et al, 2021), scientists and the health system generally (Bajos et al, 2022).…”

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Who do we trust? Differences in types of trust and beliefs in conspiracy theories between vaccinated and unvaccinated Europeans across 17 European countries

Syropoulos

Gkinopoulos

2023

Social & Personality Psych

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A plethora of research has highlighted that trust in science, political trust, and conspiracy theories are all important contributors to vaccine uptake behavior. In the current investigation, relying on data from 17 countries (N = 30,096) from the European Social Survey we examined how those who received (and wanted to receive the COVID‐19 vaccine) compared to those who did not differ in their trust in: science, politicians and political parties, international organizations and towards people in general. We also examined whether they differed in how much they believed in conspiracy theories. Those who received (or wanted to receive) the COVID vaccine scored significantly higher in all forms of trust, and lower in conspiracy theory beliefs. A logistic regression suggested that trust in science, politicians, international organizations, as well as belief in conspiracy theories were significant predictors, even after accounting for key demographic characteristics.

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Political trust in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: a meta-analysis of 67 studies

Cited by 28 publications

References 50 publications

Perceived legitimacy of antipandemic measures: Findings from west and East Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia at the peak of the COVID-19 crisis.

Perceived legitimacy of antipandemic measures: Findings from west and East Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia at the peak of the COVID-19 crisis.

Compliance in crisis: Concern, trust and distrustful complacency in the COVID‐19 pandemic

Who do we trust? Differences in types of trust and beliefs in conspiracy theories between vaccinated and unvaccinated Europeans across 17 European countries

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