The Impact of Political Ideology on Concern and Behavior During COVID-19

Psychological entitlement predicts noncompliance with the health guidelines of the COVID-19 pandemic

“…Third, our research uncovered a variety of predictors of compliance with the COVID-19 health guidelines in addition to entitlement. Consistent with other research, political liberalism and agreeableness related to greater compliance ( van Holm et al, 2020 ; Zajenkowski et al, 2020 ). Moreover, participants in our studies were more likely to report following the pandemic guidelines if they thought they had a greater chance of getting sick, if they were less likely to think they could handle getting sick, if they were more concerned about others, and if they thought the threat of the virus was more serious, which are all consistent with elements of the Health Belief Model ( Champion & Skinner, 2008 ; Glanz & Bishop, 2010 ; Rosenstock, 2005 ) and other research on increasing compliance with health guidelines in general ( Chon & Park, 2019 ; Krishna, 2018 ; Paek et al, 2008 ).…”

“…Finally, participants reported demographic information, including a rating of their political views (1 = very liberal , 11 = very conservative ). We included this item to determine whether political conservatism could account for the relationship between entitlement and noncompliance, as political conservatism relates to noncompliance with the pandemic health guidelines ( van Holm et al, 2020 ) and believing the virus is less threatening ( Calvillo et al, 2020 ). We excluded data from people who missed the true/false attention check items, leaving a sample size of 285 (94.7%) for our analyses.…”

Mentality and behavior in COVID-19 emergency status in Japan: Influence of personality, morality and ideology

“…Results replicated those of previous studies, that is, citizens suffered from mental burden due to COVID-19 [4,6], although the number of infections was comparatively small in Japan [46]. Furthermore, results indicated that concerns, mental health status, and preventive behaviors to COVID-19 are associated with personality, morality, ideology, and demographic characteristics that have been studied independently [19] and [18] for personality; [25] and [24] for morality; [28] and [26] for ideology; [4,5] for demography.…”

“…Ideology is an important factor that affects thoughts and actions. Previous studies in the United States showed that political ideology influenced concerns and behaviors toward COVID-19 [ 26 ] and trust in science agencies [ 27 ]. In addition, conservatives were less concerned about COVID-19 than liberals were [ 28 ].…”

Longitudinal Risk Communication: A Research Agenda for Communicating in a Pandemic

“…Research question 4: What is the role of political and other nonexpert leaders in increasing or decreasing motivation to comply with public health and safety guidelines? The United States continues to see nonadherence to public health recommendations coalescing around existing ideological camps 44,45 -for example, some individuals refuse to wear a mask because they perceive it as a threat to their freedom. The extent to which such embedded value conflicts are exacerbated by a protracted event such as COVID-19 is unknown.…”