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National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic

Jay Joseph Van Bavel,Aleksandra Cichocka,Valerio Capraro,Hallgeir Sjåstad,John B. Nezlek,Tomislav Pavlović,Mark Alfano,Michele J. Gelfand,Flávio Azevedo,Michèle D. Birtel,Aleksandra Cisłak,Patricia L. Lockwood,Robert M. Ross,Koenraad Abts,Елена Агадуллина,John Jamir Benzon R. Aruta,Sahba Besharati,Alexander Bor,Becky L. Choma,Charles Crabtree,William A. Cunningham,Koustav De,Waqas Ejaz,Christian T. Elbæk,Andrej Findor,Daniel Flichtentrei,Renata Franc,Biljana Gjoneska,June Gruber,Estrella Gualda,Yusaku Horiuchi,Toan Luu Duc Huynh,Agustín Ibáñez,Mostak Ahamed Imran,Jacob Israelashvili,Katarzyna Jaśko,Jarosław Kantorowicz,Elena Kantorowicz‐Reznichenko,André Krouwel,Michael Laakasuo,Claus Lamm,Caroline Leygue,Ming‐Jen Lin,Mohammad Sabbir Mansoor,Antoine Marie,Lewend Mayiwar,Honorata Mazepus,Cillian McHugh,John Paul Minda,Panagiotis Mitkidis,Andreas Olsson,Tobias Otterbring,Dominic J. Packer,Anat Perry,Michael Bang Petersen,Arathy Puthillam,Julián Riaño-Moreno,Tobias Rothmund,Hernando Santamaría‐García,Petra C. Schmid,Drozdstoy Stoyanov,Shruti Tewari,Bojan Todosijević,Manos Tsakiris,Hans H. Tung,Radu Umbreș,Edmunds Vanags,Madalina Vlasceanu,Andrew J. Vonasch,Meltem Yucel,Yucheng Zhang,Mohcine Abad,Eli Adler,Narin Akrawi,Hamza Alaoui Mdarhri,Hanane Amara,David M. Amodio,Benedict Guzman Antazo,Matthew A. J. Apps,F Ceren Ay,Mouhamadou Hady Ba,Sergio Barbosa,Brock Bastian,A. I. Berg,Maria P Bernal-Zárate,Michael J. Bernstein,Michał Białek,Ennio Bilancini,Natalia Bogatyreva,Leonardo Boncinelli,Jonathan E. Booth,Sylvie Borau,Ondrej Buchel,C. Daryl Cameron,Chrissie Ferreira de Carvalho,Tatiana Celadin,Chiara Cerami,Hom Nath Chalise,Xiaojun Cheng,Luca Cian,Kate Cockcroft,Jane Conway,Mateo Andres Córdoba-Delgado,Chiara Crespi,Marie Crouzevialle,Jo Cutler,Marzena Cypryańska,Justyna Dąbrowska,Michael Daniels,Victoria Davis,Pamala N Dayley,Sylvain Delouvée,Ognjan Denkovski,Guillaume Dezecache,Nathan Dhaliwal,Alelie Diato,Roberto Di Paolo,Marianna Drosinou,Uwe Dulleck,Jānis Ekmanis,Arhan S. Ertan,Tom Étienne,Hapsa Hossain Farhana,Fahima Farkhari,Harry Farmer,Ali Fenwick,Kristijan Fidanovski,Terry Flew,Shona Fraser,Raymond Boadi Frempong,Jonathan A. Fugelsang,Jessica Gale,E. Begoña García-Navarro,Prasad Garladinne,Oussama Ghajjou,Theofilos Gkinopoulos,Kurt Gray,Siobhán M. Griffin,Bjarki Gronfeldt,Mert Gümren,Ranju Lama Gurung,Eran Halperin,Elizabeth Harris,Volo Herzon,Matej Hruška,Guanxiong Huang,Matthias F. C. Hudecek,Ozan İşler,Simon Jangard,Frederik Juhl Jørgensen,Frank Kachanoff,John Kahn,Apsara Katuwal Dangol,Oleksandra Keudel,Lina Koppel,Mika Koverola,Emily Kubin,Anton Kunnari,Yordan Kutiyski,Oscar Moreda Laguna,Josh Leota,Eva Lermer,Jonathan Lévy,Neil Levy,Chunyun Li,Elizabeth U Long,Chiara Longoni,Marina Maglić,Darragh McCashin,Alexander L. Metcalf,Igor Mikloušić,Soulaimane El Mimouni,Asako Miura,Juliana Molina-Paredes,César Monroy-Fonseca,Elena Morales-Marente,David Moreau,Rafał Muda,Annalisa Myer,Kyle Nash,Tarik Nesh-Nash,Jonas P. Nitschke,Matthew S. Nurse,Yohsuke Ohtsubo,Victoria Oldemburgo de Mello,Cathal O’madagain,Michal Onderčo,María Soledad Palacios-Gálvez,Jussi Palomäki,Yafeng Pan,Zsófia Papp,Philip Pärnamets,Mariola Paruzel‐Czachura,Zoran Pavlović,César Payán‐Gómez,Silva Perander,Michael M. Pitman,Rajib Prasad,Joanna Pyrkosz‐Pacyna,Steve Rathje,Ali Raza,Gabriel Gaudencio Rêgo,Kasey Rhee,Claire Robertson,Iván Rodríguez-Pascual,Teemu Saikkonen,Octavio Salvador-Ginez,Waldir M. Sampaio,Gaia Chiara Santi,Natalia Santiago-Tovar,David A. Savage,Julian Andrew Scheffer,Philipp Schoenegger,David Schultner,Enid Schutte,Andy Scott,Madhavi Sharma,Pujan Sharma,Ahmed Skali,David Stadelmann,Clara Alexandra Stafford,Dragan Stanojević,Anna Stefaniak,Anni Sternisko,Agustin Stoica,Kristina Stoyanova,Brent Strickland,Jukka Sundvall,Jeffrey Thomas,Gustav Tinghög,Benno Torgler,Iris Traast,Raffaele Tucciarelli,Michael Tyrala,Nick Ungson,Mete Sefa Uysal,Paul A. M. Van Lange,Jan‐Willem van Prooijen,Dirk Van Rooy,Daniel Västfjäll,Peter P. J. L. Verkoeijen,Joana B. Vieira,Christian von Sikorski,Alexander Walker,Jennifer Watermeyer,Erik Wetter,Ashley V. Whillans,Robin Willardt,Michael J. A. Wohl,Adrian Wójcik,Kaidi Wu,Yuki Yamada,Onurcan Yılmaz,Kumar Yogeeswaran,Carolin-Theresa Ziemer,Rolf A. Zwaan,Paulo S. Boggio

Pandemic

Public health

Psychological intervention

2022

Changing collective behaviour and supporting non-pharmaceutical interventions is an important component in mitigating virus transmission during a pandemic. In a large international collaboration (Study 1, N = 49,968 across 67 countries), we investigated self-reported factors associated with public health behaviours (e.g., spatial distancing and stricter hygiene) and endorsed public policy interventions (e.g., closing bars and restaurants) during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic (April-May 2020). Respondents who reported identifying more strongly with their nation consistently reported greater engagement in public health behaviours and support for public health policies. Results were similar for representative and non-representative national samples. Study 2 (N = 42 countries) conceptually replicated the central finding using aggregate indices of national identity (obtained using the World Values Survey) and a measure of actual behaviour change during the pandemic (obtained from Google mobility reports). Higher levels of national identification prior to the pandemic predicted lower mobility during the early stage of the pandemic (r = -0.40). We discuss the potential implications of links between national identity, leadership, and public health for managing COVID-19 and future pandemics.

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“National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic” is a paper by Jay Joseph Van Bavel Aleksandra Cichocka Valerio Capraro Hallgeir Sjåstad John B. Nezlek Tomislav Pavlović Mark Alfano Michele J. Gelfand Flávio Azevedo Michèle D. Birtel Aleksandra Cisłak Patricia L. Lockwood Robert M. Ross Koenraad Abts Елена Агадуллина John Jamir Benzon R. Aruta Sahba Besharati Alexander Bor Becky L. Choma Charles Crabtree William A. Cunningham Koustav De Waqas Ejaz Christian T. Elbæk Andrej Findor Daniel Flichtentrei Renata Franc Biljana Gjoneska June Gruber Estrella Gualda Yusaku Horiuchi Toan Luu Duc Huynh Agustín Ibáñez Mostak Ahamed Imran Jacob Israelashvili Katarzyna Jaśko Jarosław Kantorowicz Elena Kantorowicz‐Reznichenko André Krouwel Michael Laakasuo Claus Lamm Caroline Leygue Ming‐Jen Lin Mohammad Sabbir Mansoor Antoine Marie Lewend Mayiwar Honorata Mazepus Cillian McHugh John Paul Minda Panagiotis Mitkidis Andreas Olsson Tobias Otterbring Dominic J. Packer Anat Perry Michael Bang Petersen Arathy Puthillam Julián Riaño-Moreno Tobias Rothmund Hernando Santamaría‐García Petra C. Schmid Drozdstoy Stoyanov Shruti Tewari Bojan Todosijević Manos Tsakiris Hans H. Tung Radu Umbreș Edmunds Vanags Madalina Vlasceanu Andrew J. Vonasch Meltem Yucel Yucheng Zhang Mohcine Abad Eli Adler Narin Akrawi Hamza Alaoui Mdarhri Hanane Amara David M. Amodio Benedict Guzman Antazo Matthew A. J. Apps F Ceren Ay Mouhamadou Hady Ba Sergio Barbosa Brock Bastian A. I. Berg Maria P Bernal-Zárate Michael J. Bernstein Michał Białek Ennio Bilancini Natalia Bogatyreva Leonardo Boncinelli Jonathan E. Booth Sylvie Borau Ondrej Buchel C. Daryl Cameron Chrissie Ferreira de Carvalho Tatiana Celadin Chiara Cerami Hom Nath Chalise Xiaojun Cheng Luca Cian Kate Cockcroft Jane Conway Mateo Andres Córdoba-Delgado Chiara Crespi Marie Crouzevialle Jo Cutler Marzena Cypryańska Justyna Dąbrowska Michael Daniels Victoria Davis Pamala N Dayley Sylvain Delouvée Ognjan Denkovski Guillaume Dezecache Nathan Dhaliwal Alelie Diato Roberto Di Paolo Marianna Drosinou Uwe Dulleck Jānis Ekmanis Arhan S. Ertan Tom Étienne Hapsa Hossain Farhana Fahima Farkhari Harry Farmer Ali Fenwick Kristijan Fidanovski Terry Flew Shona Fraser Raymond Boadi Frempong Jonathan A. Fugelsang Jessica Gale E. Begoña García-Navarro Prasad Garladinne Oussama Ghajjou Theofilos Gkinopoulos Kurt Gray Siobhán M. Griffin Bjarki Gronfeldt Mert Gümren Ranju Lama Gurung Eran Halperin Elizabeth Harris Volo Herzon Matej Hruška Guanxiong Huang Matthias F. C. Hudecek Ozan İşler Simon Jangard Frederik Juhl Jørgensen Frank Kachanoff John Kahn Apsara Katuwal Dangol Oleksandra Keudel Lina Koppel Mika Koverola Emily Kubin Anton Kunnari Yordan Kutiyski Oscar Moreda Laguna Josh Leota Eva Lermer Jonathan Lévy Neil Levy Chunyun Li Elizabeth U Long Chiara Longoni Marina Maglić Darragh McCashin Alexander L. Metcalf Igor Mikloušić Soulaimane El Mimouni Asako Miura Juliana Molina-Paredes César Monroy-Fonseca Elena Morales-Marente David Moreau Rafał Muda Annalisa Myer Kyle Nash Tarik Nesh-Nash Jonas P. Nitschke Matthew S. Nurse Yohsuke Ohtsubo Victoria Oldemburgo de Mello Cathal O’madagain Michal Onderčo María Soledad Palacios-Gálvez Jussi Palomäki Yafeng Pan Zsófia Papp Philip Pärnamets Mariola Paruzel‐Czachura Zoran Pavlović César Payán‐Gómez Silva Perander Michael M. Pitman Rajib Prasad Joanna Pyrkosz‐Pacyna Steve Rathje Ali Raza Gabriel Gaudencio Rêgo Kasey Rhee Claire Robertson Iván Rodríguez-Pascual Teemu Saikkonen Octavio Salvador-Ginez Waldir M. Sampaio Gaia Chiara Santi Natalia Santiago-Tovar David A. Savage Julian Andrew Scheffer Philipp Schoenegger David Schultner Enid Schutte Andy Scott Madhavi Sharma Pujan Sharma Ahmed Skali David Stadelmann Clara Alexandra Stafford Dragan Stanojević Anna Stefaniak Anni Sternisko Agustin Stoica Kristina Stoyanova Brent Strickland Jukka Sundvall Jeffrey Thomas Gustav Tinghög Benno Torgler Iris Traast Raffaele Tucciarelli Michael Tyrala Nick Ungson Mete Sefa Uysal Paul A. M. Van Lange Jan‐Willem van Prooijen Dirk Van Rooy Daniel Västfjäll Peter P. J. L. Verkoeijen Joana B. Vieira Christian von Sikorski Alexander Walker Jennifer Watermeyer Erik Wetter Ashley V. Whillans Robin Willardt Michael J. A. Wohl Adrian Wójcik Kaidi Wu Yuki Yamada Onurcan Yılmaz Kumar Yogeeswaran Carolin-Theresa Ziemer Rolf A. Zwaan Paulo S. Boggio published in 2022. It has an Open Access status of “gold”. You can read and download a PDF Full Text of this paper here.