‘Citizens’ Attitudes Under Covid19’: a cross-country panel survey of public opinion in 11 democracies

Abstract

This article introduces data collected in the Citizens' Attitudes Under Covid-19 Project (CAUCP), which surveyed public opinion throughout the Covid-19 pandemic in 11 countries between March to December 2020. In this paper, we present a unique cross-country panel survey of citizens' attitudes and behaviors during a worldwide unprecedented health, governance, and economic crisis. This dataset allows to examine the behavioral and attitudinal consequences of crisis across time and contexts. In this paper, we describe the set-up of the CAUCP and the main features of the dataset and we present promising research prospects.

Emotions, governmental trust and support for the restriction of civil liberties during the covid‐19 pandemic

“…The effects of fear and anger on support for phone surveillance and curfew implementation Source: Citizens’ Attitudes Under COVID‐19 Pandemic (Brouard et al., 2021). Note: Graphs display predicted probabilities of complete support for the measures by levels of fear and anger.…”

“…Unlike fear and anger, the impact of hope on political behaviour has received less attention, despite being a common affective response to threat . A stream of research investigates hope together with other positive emotions such as enthusiasm or pride without differentiating the effects of each (Brader & Marcus, 2013;MacKuen et al, 2010;Marcus et al, 2000Marcus et al, , 2017. In the realm of behaviour, positive emotions such as hope, joy or enthusiasm render individuals less likely to seek out information about a threatening stimulus and more likely to decide on the basis of extant convictions (Brader, 2005;Marcus et al, 2000).…”

“…Data come from the collaborative project ‘Citizens’ Attitudes Under COVID‐19 Pandemic’, a cross‐national panel study produced by IPSOS in 2020 (see Brouard et al., 2021 for a full description). The study was conducted using Computer Assisted Web Interviewing (CAWI) on a quota sample.…”

“…First‐wave respondents were contacted again for subsequent waves. Those who failed to respond were replaced by new respondents in a way that matched the sample quota targets (see Brouard et al., 2021). Overall, 6,030 respondents, or about half of the sample, are seen in multiple waves, corresponding to 14,300 individual‐time observations.…”

Predicting Compliance with Sanitary Behaviors among Students in Higher Education During the Second COVID-19 Wave: The Role of Health Anxiety and Risk Perception

“…The present study is innovative as it measures sanitary behaviors through a set of items representing different contexts, and different ease of behaviors application (Schmitz et al, 2022;Wollast et al, 2021). Such an approach provides a higher ecological validity in comparison to studies that adopt a single overall measure for each behavior (Brouard et al, 2020;Clark et al, 2020;Hung et al, 2021;Patil et al, 2021;Wollast, Sadeghi-Bahmani, et al, 2022). Moreover, these different indices allow to identify specific determinants for each preventive behavior (i.e., handwashing, mask wearing, social distancing and physical distancing), which is more accurate than with a single measure of compliance with sanitary measures (Wismans et al, 2020).…”