Harnessing shared identities to mobilise resilient responses to the COVID-19 pandemic

Vignoles, Vivian L.; Jaser, Zahira; Taylor, F; Ntontis, Evangelos

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“…First, they should attempt to increase people's sense of identification with their communities (which, in turn, will predict higher willingness to engage in community‐related normative behaviour). Second, they should aim to ensure that the prevailing norms that are associated with the community are prosocial and based on the concept of collective solidarity (Vignoles et al, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, consistent with previously discussed literature, evidence supports the idea that those who identify strongly with their community are particularly likely to engage in these pro‐community helping behaviours. For instance, Vignoles, Jaser, Taylor, and Ntontis (2021) showed that community identification positively predicted helping behaviour during the pandemic, while Stevenson, Wakefield, Drury, and Felsner (2021) showed that community identification positively predicted participants' belief that support was available from their community if they needed it, which positively predicted their giving and receiving of pandemic‐related emotional support over time. In turn, this giving and receiving of support positively predicted participants' adherence to lockdown rules (a behaviour that can be perceived as a collective act of community solidarity; Vignoles et al, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For instance, Vignoles, Jaser, Taylor, and Ntontis (2021) showed that community identification positively predicted helping behaviour during the pandemic, while Stevenson, Wakefield, Drury, and Felsner (2021) showed that community identification positively predicted participants' belief that support was available from their community if they needed it, which positively predicted their giving and receiving of pandemic‐related emotional support over time. In turn, this giving and receiving of support positively predicted participants' adherence to lockdown rules (a behaviour that can be perceived as a collective act of community solidarity; Vignoles et al, 2021). When applied to the context of vaccination, this suggests that there will be a positive relationship between community identification and COVID‐19 vaccination willingness.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Doing it for us: Community identification predicts willingness to receive aCOVID‐19 vaccination via perceived sense of duty to the community

Wakefield

Khauser

2021

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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The COVID‐19 pandemic has presented huge challenges for communities across the world. Vaccines offer the best hope for controlling its deleterious effects, but not everybody is willing to be vaccinated, so it is important to explore variables that might predict vaccination willingness. The present study addressed this by drawing upon the Social Identity Approach, which posits that people's membership of social groups is consequential for their thoughts and behaviour. Specifically, it was predicted that people's strength of identification with their local community (a social group that came to particular prominence during the pandemic) would positively predict their willingness to engage in community‐related prosocial normative behaviour (i.e., their perceived sense of duty, as a community member, to get vaccinated) and that this, in turn, would predict higher levels of vaccination willingness. Participants ( N = 130) completed an online survey, which supported the hypothesized mediation model, even after controlling for subjective neighbourhood socio‐economic status and age (two variables that are particularly likely to impact upon vaccination willingness). To our knowledge, this is the first study to apply Social Identity Approach principles to the study of COVID‐19 vaccination willingness. The implications of the findings for governments' efforts to boost vaccine uptake are discussed. Please refer to the Supplementary Material section to find this article's Community and Social Impact Statement .

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Doing it for us: Community identification predicts willingness to receive aCOVID‐19 vaccination via perceived sense of duty to the community

Wakefield

Khauser

2021

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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“…Additionally, it will be crucial for future studies to compare the influence of different types of collective identity (e.g., global identity, regional identity, national identity, local identity) and examine which of them would play a significant role in mobilizing people to adopt disease-preventive behaviors. For example, in a recent study, Vignoles, Jaser, Taylor, and Ntontis (2020) examined the relationship between four types of collective identity (family, community, nation, and humanity) and COVID-19-related behaviors among a sample of U.K. participants. They found that family identification was positively related to disease-preventive behaviors, while national identification and humanity identification were positively related to prosocial behaviors.…”

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War Against COVID‐19: How Is National Identification Linked With the Adoption of Disease‐Preventive Behaviors in China and the United States?

Chan

Xue

Zuo

et al. 2021

Political Psychology

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Fighting the COVID‐19 pandemic requires large numbers of citizens to adopt disease‐preventive practices. We contend that national identification can mobilize and motivate people to engage in preventive behaviors to protect the collective, which in return would heighten national identification further. To test these reciprocal links, we conducted studies in two countries with diverse national tactics toward curbing the pandemic: (1) a two‐wave longitudinal survey in China (Study 1, N = 1200), where a national goal to fight COVID‐19 was clearly set, and (2) a five‐wave longitudinal survey in the United States (Study 2, N = 1001), where the national leader, President Trump, rejected the severity of COVID‐19 in its early stage. Results revealed that national identification was associated with an increase in disease‐preventive behaviors in both countries in general. However, higher national identification was associated with greater trust in Trump's administration among politically conservative American participants, which then was associated with slower adoption of preventive behaviors. The reciprocal effect of disease‐preventive behaviors on national identification was observed only in China. Overall, our findings suggest that although national identification may serve as a protective factor in curbing the pandemic, this beneficial effect was reduced in some political contexts. Highlights Policymakers should note that national identity serves as a protective factor in curbing the COVID‐19 pandemic. Narratives that highlight the collective agency of people would be useful in promoting disease‐preventive actions as long as they are also endorsed by national leaders. National leaders should provide clear and consistent recommendations in promoting disease‐preventive actions. Practitioners and policymakers should be aware of how the communication strategies they use would be affected by society’s political contexts. Mobilizing disease‐preventive actions through a patriotic frame might not be useful when national leaders did not unambiguously promote disease prevention.

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“…As we outlined above, the best way to deal with a pandemic consists in coordinated protective measures which require us both to consider collective rather than individual goals, including the protection of people we do not know, and also to trust others to make pro-social choices. A recent body of literature has documented how shared social identification with one’s family or community (Vignoles et al, 2021 ) or national identification (Van Bavel et al, 2020b ) predict normative actions and support for public health measures in the context of COVID-19. Messages focused on duties and responsibilities toward family, friends and fellow citizens also seem to be an effective approach for public health messaging (Everett et al, 2020 ).…”

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Protect Others to Protect Myself: A Weakness of Western Countries in the Face of Current and Future Pandemics? Psychological and Neuroscientific Perspectives

Mermillod

Morisseau

2021

Front. Integr. Neurosci.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has generated a large number of publications in the medical and biological fields concerning the virus and its treatments, as well as in psychology, social sciences, and data sciences with regard to the spread of the virus. Surprisingly, far fewer neuroscientific articles have been published in this field of research and one might well ask whether the cognitive neurosciences have anything to say at all about this vital topic. In this article, we highlight a research perspective relating to differences in the individual perception of the pandemic in Western compared to Eastern countries. Although this problem is complex, multifaceted and subsumes many other social variables, we suggest that the cognitive neurosciences do have important and fundamental insights to contribute concerning the collective response observed within these populations. More precisely, we propose the hypothesis that differences in the propensity to adopt a holistic perception of contamination processes at the group level, involving brain structures that are also associated with perspective-taking and empathy such as, in particular, the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) and the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), could help explain the differences in the perception of the pandemic observed between Western and Eastern countries.

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Harnessing shared identities to mobilise resilient responses to the COVID-19 pandemic

Cited by 8 publications

References 14 publications

Doing it for us: Community identification predicts willingness to receive aCOVID‐19 vaccination via perceived sense of duty to the community

Doing it for us: Community identification predicts willingness to receive aCOVID‐19 vaccination via perceived sense of duty to the community

War Against COVID‐19: How Is National Identification Linked With the Adoption of Disease‐Preventive Behaviors in China and the United States?

Protect Others to Protect Myself: A Weakness of Western Countries in the Face of Current and Future Pandemics? Psychological and Neuroscientific Perspectives

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