COVID-19: Large-scale collective action, government intervention, and the importance of trust

Harring, Niklas; Jagers, Sverker C.; Löfgren, Åsa

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105236

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“…As a global health crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic necessitates cooperation (Nowak, 2006). Indeed, current theorizing conceptualizes outbreak mitigation as a social dilemma (Harring, Jagers, & Löfgren, 2021;Ling & Ho, 2020), arguing that immediate personal interests are at odds with the benefit of the collective. Therefore, self-control efforts to engage in health-protective behaviors are embedded in a social context in which people must exercise self-control in service of a collective goal (Feygina et al, 2010).…”

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Self-control and beliefs surrounding others’ cooperation predict own health-protective behaviors and support for COVID-19 government regulations: Evidence from two European countries

Kukowski

Bernecker

Brandstätter

2021

Soc. Psychol. Bull.

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In the current pandemic, both self-regulated health-protective behavior and government-imposed regulations are needed for successful outbreak mitigation. Going forward, researchers and decision-makers must therefore understand the factors contributing to individuals’ engagement in health-protective behavior, and their support for government regulations. Integrating knowledge from the literatures on self-control and cooperation, we explore an informed selection of potential predictors of individuals’ health-protective behaviors as well as their support for government regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Aiming for a conceptual replication in two European countries, we collected data in Switzerland (N = 352) and the UK before (N = 212) and during lockdown (n = 132) and conducted supervised machine learning for variable selection, followed by OLS regression, cross-sectionally and, in the UK sample, across time. Results showed that personal importance of outbreak mitigation and beliefs surrounding others’ cooperation are associated with both health-protective behavior and support for government regulations. Further, Swiss participants high in trait self-control engaged in health-protective behavior more often. Interestingly, perceived risk, age, and political orientation consistently displayed nonsignificant weak to zero associations with both health-protective behavior and support. Together, these findings highlight the contribution of self-control theories in explaining COVID-19-relevant outcomes, and underscore the importance of contextualizing self-control within the cooperative social context.

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Section: Self-control In the Context Of Cooperationmentioning

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Self-control and beliefs surrounding others’ cooperation predict own health-protective behaviors and support for COVID-19 government regulations: Evidence from two European countries

Kukowski

Bernecker

Brandstätter

2021

Soc. Psychol. Bull.

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“…It is likely that the COVID-19 pandemic is fueling the emergence of antimicrobial resistance due to high rates of inappropriate antimicrobial prescribing, a high use of biocides and the interruption of treatment for other conditions [ 7 ]. However, in contrast to the collective action problems, such as antimicrobial resistance, the COVID-19 pandemic is an immediate and ongoing crisis [ 8 ]. The World Health Organization has stressed the importance of integrating antimicrobial stewardship measures into the COVID-19 response of the healthcare system.…”

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Implications of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Emergence of Antimicrobial Resistance: Adjusting the Response to Future Outbreaks

Rušić

Vilović

Bukic

et al. 2021

Life

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The net effect of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the response to it on the emergence of antimicrobial resistance is yet unknown. Positive impacts on the spread of multiresistant pathogens and infections in general may be observed with the implementation of general preventative measures for the spread of infectious disease such as social distancing, reduced travel and increased personal hygiene. This pandemic has accelerated the development of novel technologies, such as mRNA vaccines, that may be used to fight other diseases. These should be capitalized upon to manage the ongoing antimicrobial resistance pandemic in the background. However, it is likely that the COVID-19 pandemic is fueling the emergence of antimicrobial resistance due to high rates of inappropriate antimicrobial prescribing, the high use of biocides and the interruption of treatment for other conditions. Clinical uncertainty driven by the lack of effective diagnostics and practice of telemedicine may have driven the inappropriate use of antimicrobials. As pathogens know no borders, increased focus is needed for infectious diseases still threatening low- and middle-income countries such as tuberculosis. Stewardship measures for future outbreaks should stress the importance of social distancing and hand washing but discourage the overuse of disinfectants and antimicrobials that are not proven effective.

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“…China and Italy seem to follow analogous patterns in the late part of the period; a possible explanation can be found in the strict collaboration between such countries during the lockdown, which can be seen as the driver of a common mood. From a more general point of view, the results showed in Figure 6 can be further considered in lights of the findings reported in [24], namely, the trust in financial markets is affected and affects the trust in government policies. Figure 8 and Table 7.…”

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Anxiety for the pandemic and trust in financial markets

Cerqueti

Ficcadenti

2020

Preprint

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The COVID-19 pandemic has generated a novel context of global financial distress. This paper enters the related scientific debate and focuses on the relationship between the anxiety felt by the population of a wide set of countries during the pandemic and the trust in the future performance of financial markets. Precisely, we move from the idea -- grounded on some recent literature contributions -- that the volume of Google searches about "coronavirus" can be considered as a proxy of the anxiety and, jointly with the stock index prices, can be used to produce indicators of the population mood -- in terms of pessimism and optimism -- at country level. We analyse the ``very high human developed countries'' according to the Human Development Index plus China and their respective main stock market indexes. Namely, we propose both a temporal and a global measure of pessimism and optimism and provide accordingly a classification of indexes and countries. The results show the existence of different clusters of countries and markets in terms of pessimism and optimism. Moreover, specific regimes along the time emerge, with an increasing optimism spreading during the mid of June 2020. Furthermore, countries with different government responses to the pandemic have experienced different levels of mood indicators, so that countries with less strict lockdown had a higher level of optimism.

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COVID-19: Large-scale collective action, government intervention, and the importance of trust

Cited by 92 publications

References 15 publications

Self-control and beliefs surrounding others’ cooperation predict own health-protective behaviors and support for COVID-19 government regulations: Evidence from two European countries

Self-control and beliefs surrounding others’ cooperation predict own health-protective behaviors and support for COVID-19 government regulations: Evidence from two European countries

Implications of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Emergence of Antimicrobial Resistance: Adjusting the Response to Future Outbreaks

Anxiety for the pandemic and trust in financial markets

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