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Lives versus Livelihoods? Perceived economic risk has a stronger association with support for COVID-19 preventive measures than perceived health risk

Nisa CF 1 , Bélanger JJ 2 , Faller DG 2 , Buttrick NR 3 , Mierau JO 4 , Austin MMK 3 Show all authors , Schumpe BM 5 , Sasin EM 2 , Agostini M 4 , Gützkow B 4 , Kreienkamp J 4 , Abakoumkin G 6 , Abdul Khaiyom JH 7 , Ahmedi V 8 , Akkas H 9 , Almenara CA 10 , Atta M 11 , Bagci SC 12 , Basel S 2 , Kida EB 8 , Bernardo ABI 13 , Chobthamkit P 14 , Choi HS 15 , Cristea M 16 , Csaba S 17 , Damnjanović K 18 , Danyliuk I 19 , Dash A 20 , Di Santo D 21 , Douglas KM 22 , Enea V 23 , Fitzsimons G 24 , Gheorghiu A 23 , Gómez Á 25 , Grzymala-Moszczynska J 26 , Hamaidia A 27 , Han Q 28 , Helmy M 29 , Hudiyana J 30 , Jeronimus BF 4 , Jiang DY 31 , Jovanović V 32 , Kamenov Ž 33 , Kende A 17 , Keng SL 34 , Kieu TTT 35 , Koc Y 4 , Kovyazina K 36 , Kozytska I 19 , Krause J 4 , Kruglanski AW 37 , Kurapov A 19 , Kutlaca M 38 , Lantos NA 17 , Lemay EP 37 , Lesmana CBJ 39 , Louis WR 40 , Lueders A 41 , Malik NI 11 , Martinez A 42 , McCabe KO 43 , Mehulić J 33 , Milla MN 30 , Mohammed I 44 , Molinario E 37 , Moyano M 45 , Muhammad H 46 , Mula S 21 , Muluk H 30 , Myroniuk S 4 , Najafi R 47 , Nyúl B 17 , O'Keefe PA 34 , Osuna JJO 25 , Osin EN 48 , Park J 49 , Pica G 50 , Pierro A 21 , Rees J 51 , Reitsema AM 4 , Resta E 21 , Rullo M 52 , Ryan MK 53 , Samekin A 54 , Santtila P 55 , Selim HA 56 , Stanton MV 57 , Sultana S 4 , Sutton RM 22 , Tseliou E 5 , Utsugi A 58 , van Breen JA 59 , Van Lissa CJ 60 , Van Veen K 4 , vanDellen MR 61 , Vázquez A 25 , Wollast R 41 , Yeung VW 62 , Zand S 47 , Žeželj IL 18 , Zheng B 63 , Zick A 51 , Zúñiga C 64 , Leander NP 4

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  • 1 Department of Psychology, New York University Abu Dhabi, PO BOX 129188, Saadiyat Island, UAE. cfn1@nyu.edu
  • 2 Department of Psychology, New York University Abu Dhabi, PO BOX 129188, Saadiyat Island, UAE
  • 3 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
  • 4 University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
  • 5 University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 6 University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
  • 7 International Islamic University Malaysia, Gombak, Malaysia
  • 8 Pristine University, Pristine, Kosovo
  • 9 Ankara Science University, Ankara, Turkey
  • 10 Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Lima, Peru
  • 11 University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan
  • 12 Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 13 De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines
  • 14 Thammasat University, Pathumthani, Thailand
  • 15 Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea
  • 16 Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland
  • 17 Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary
  • 18 University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
  • 19 Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kiev, Ukraine
  • 20 Leuphana University Luneburg, Lüneburg, Germany
  • 21 Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
  • 22 University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
  • 23 Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Iasi, Romania
  • 24 Duke University, Durham, USA
  • 25 Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain
  • 26 Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
  • 27 University Setif 2, Sétif, Algeria
  • 28 University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
  • 29 Menoufia University, Al Minufiyah, Egypt
  • 30 Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia
  • 31 National Chung-Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan
  • 32 University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • 33 University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
  • 34 Yale-NUS College, Singapore, Singapore
  • 35 HCMC University of Education, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
  • 36 Independent Researcher, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
  • 37 University of Maryland, College Park, USA
  • 38 Durham University, Durham, UK
  • 39 Udayana University, Denpasar, Indonesia
  • 40 University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
  • 41 Université Clermont-Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
  • 42 University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
  • 43 Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
  • 44 Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, Sokoto, Nigeria
  • 45 University of Cordoba, Córdoba, Spain
  • 46 University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan
  • 47 Islamic Azad University, Rasht Branch, Rasht, Iran
  • 48 National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
  • 49 NUCB Business School, Nagoya, Japan
  • 50 University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy
  • 51 Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
  • 52 University of Siena, Siena, Italy
  • 53 University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
  • 54 International Islamic Academy of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
  • 55 New York University Shanghai, Shanghai, China
  • 56 King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  • 57 California State University, East Bay, Hayward, USA
  • 58 Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
  • 59 Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
  • 60 Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
  • 61 University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
  • 62 Lingnan University, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong
  • 63 Imperial College London, London, UK
  • 64 Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Sci Rep, 2021 May 06;11(1):9669.
PMID: 33958617 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-88314-4

Abstract

This paper examines whether compliance with COVID-19 mitigation measures is motivated by wanting to save lives or save the economy (or both), and which implications this carries to fight the pandemic. National representative samples were collected from 24 countries (N = 25,435). The main predictors were (1) perceived risk to contract coronavirus, (2) perceived risk to suffer economic losses due to coronavirus, and (3) their interaction effect. Individual and country-level variables were added as covariates in multilevel regression models. We examined compliance with various preventive health behaviors and support for strict containment policies. Results show that perceived economic risk consistently predicted mitigation behavior and policy support-and its effects were positive. Perceived health risk had mixed effects. Only two significant interactions between health and economic risk were identified-both positive.

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