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Politicization of COVID-19 health-protective behaviors in the United States: Longitudinal and cross-national evidence.
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Wolfgang StroebeDepartment of Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
Michelle R vanDellenDepartment of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-3457-194X
Georgios AbakoumkinLaboratory of Psychology, Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-1671-3561
Edward P LemayDepartment of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America.
William M SchiavoneDepartment of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America.
Maximilian AgostiniDepartment of Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-6435-7621
Jocelyn J BélangerDepartment of Psychology, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Ben GützkowDepartment of Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
Jannis KreienkampDepartment of Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-1831-5604
Anne Margit ReitsemaDepartment of Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
Jamilah Hanum Abdul KhaiyomDepartment of Psychology, International Islamic University Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia.
Vjolica AhmediFaculty of Education, Pristine University, Pristina, Kosovo.
Handan AkkasOrganizational Behavior, Ankara Science University, Ankara, Turkey.
Carlos A AlmenaraFaculty of Health Science, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Lima, Peru.
Mohsin AttaDepartment of Psychology, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan.
Sabahat Cigdem BagciDepartment of Psychology, Sabanci University, Tuzla, Turkey.
Sima BaselDepartment of Psychology, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Edona Berisha KidaFaculty of Education, Pristine University, Pristina, Kosovo.
Allan B I BernardoDepartment of Psychology, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines.
Nicholas R ButtrickDepartment of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America.
Phatthanakit ChobthamkitDepartment of Psychology, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Hoon-Seok ChoiDepartment of Psychology, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea.
Mioara CristeaDepartment of Psychology, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Sára CsabaDepartment of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
Kaja DamnjanovićDepartment of Psychology, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Ivan DanyliukDepartment of Psychology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine.ORCID 0000-0002-6522-5994
Arobindu DashDepartment of Social Sciences, International University of Business Agriculture and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh.ORCID 0000-0003-4642-512X
Daniela Di SantoDepartment of Social and Developmental Psychology, University "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy.
Karen M DouglasSchool of Psychology, University of Kent, Kent, United Kingdom.
Violeta EneaDepartment of Psychology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași, Romania.ORCID 0000-0003-3789-2017
Daiane Gracieli FallerDepartment of Psychology, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Gavan FitzsimonsDepartments of Marketing and Psychology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America.
Alexandra GheorghiuDepartment of Psychology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași, Romania.
Ángel GómezCenter for European Studies, Faculty of Law, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Madrid, Spain.
Ali HamaidiaDepartment of Psychology and Human Resources Development, Setif 2 University, Setif, Algeria.
Qing HanThe School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom.
Mai HelmyDepartment of Psychology, Menoufia University, Al Minufiyah, Egypt.
Joevarian HudiyanaDepartment of Psychology, Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia.ORCID 0000-0001-5507-0573
Bertus F JeronimusDepartment of Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
Ding-Yu JiangDepartment of Psychology, National Chung-Cheng University, Minxiong, Taiwan.
Veljko JovanovićDepartment of Psychology, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia.
Željka KamenovFaculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
Anna KendeDepartment of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
Shian-Ling KengDivision of Social Science, Yale-NUS College, Singapore, Singapore.
Tra Thi Thanh KieuDepartment of Psychology, HCMC University of Education, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.ORCID 0000-0001-6269-7796
Yasin KocDepartment of Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
Kamila KovyazinaIndependent Researcher, Kazakhstan.
Inna KozytskaDepartment of Psychology, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan.
Joshua KrauseDepartment of Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
Arie W KruglanksiDepartment of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America.
Anton KurapovDepartment of Psychology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Maja KutlacaDepartment of Psychology, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom.
Nóra Anna LantosDepartment of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
Cokorda Bagus Jaya LemsmanaDepartment of Psychiatry, Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia.
Winnifred R LouisSchool of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Adrian LuedersLaboratoire de Psychologie Sociale et Cognitive, Université Clermont-Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Najma Iqbal MalikDepartment of Psychology, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan.
Anton MartinezDepartment of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Kira O McCabeDepartment of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
Jasmina MehulićFaculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
Mirra Noor MillaDepartment of Psychology, Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia.ORCID 0000-0001-5195-2296
Idris MohammedMass Communication, Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, Sokoto, Nigeria.
Erica MolinarioDepartment of Psychology, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida, United States of America.
Manuel MoyanoDepartment of Psychology, University of Cordoba, Andalusia, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-6745-0936
Hayat MuhammadDepartment of Psychology, University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0002-8511-6322
Silvana MulaDepartment of Social and Developmental Psychology, University "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy.
Hamdi MulukDepartment of Psychology, Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia.
Solomiia MyroniukDepartment of Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
Reza NajafiDepartment of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran.
Claudia F NisaDepartment of Psychology, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Boglárka NyúlDepartment of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
Paul A O'KeefeDivision of Social Science, Yale-NUS College, Singapore, Singapore.
Jose Javier Olivas OsunaDepartment of Political Science and Administration, National Distance Education University (UNED), Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-9877-8480
Evgeny N OsinDepartment of Psychology, HSE University, Moscow, Russia.
Joonha ParkGraduate School of Management, NUCB Business School, Nagoya, Japan.
Gennaro PicaSchool of Law, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3739-7462
Antonio PierroDepartment of Social and Developmental Psychology, University "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy.
Jonas ReesResearch Institute Social Cohesion, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence, and Department of Social Psychology Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.
Elena RestaDepartment of Social and Developmental Psychology, University "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy.
Marika RulloDepartment of Educational, Humanities and Intercultural Communication, University of Siena, Siena, Italy.
Michelle K RyanDepartment of Psychology, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom.
Adil SamekinSchool of Liberal Arts, M. Narikbayec KAZGUU University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.
Pekka SanttilaDepartment of Psychology, New York University Shanghai, Shanghai, China.
Edyta SasinDepartment of Psychology, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Birga M SchumpeFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Heyla A SelimDepartment of Psychology, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Michael Vicente StantonDepartment of Public Health, California State University East Bay, Hayward, California, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-8142-6569
Samiah SultanaDepartment of Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
Robbie M SuttonSchool of Psychology, University of Kent, Kent, United Kingdom.
Eleftheria TseliouLaboratory of Psychology, Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-9114-731X
Akira UtsugiDepartment of Psychology, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.
Jolien Anne van BreenInstitute of Governance and Global Affairs, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands.
Caspar J Van LissaDepartment of Methodology & Statistics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Kees Van VeenDepartment of Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
Alexandra VázquezCenter for European Studies, Faculty of Law, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Madrid, Spain.
Robin WollastLaboratoire de Psychologie Sociale et Cognitive, Université Clermont-Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Victoria Wai-Lan YeungDepartment of Psychology, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China.
Somayeh ZandDepartment of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran.
Iris Lav ŽeželjDepartment of Psychology, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Bang ZhengAgeing Epidemiology Research Unit, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Andreas ZickResearch Institute Social Cohesion, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence, and Department of Social Psychology Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.
Claudia ZúñigaDepartment of Psychology, Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
N Pontus LeanderDepartment of Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-3073-5038
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Abstract
During the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. conservative politicians and the media downplayed the risk of both contracting COVID-19 and the effectiveness of recommended health behaviors. Health behavior theories suggest perceived vulnerability to a health threat and perceived effectiveness of recommended health-protective behaviors determine motivation to follow recommendations. Accordingly, we predicted that-as a result of politicization of the pandemic-politically conservative Americans would be less likely to enact recommended health-protective behaviors. In two longitudinal studies of U.S. residents, political conservatism was inversely associated with perceived health risk and adoption of health-protective behaviors over time. The effects of political orientation on health-protective behaviors were mediated by perceived risk of infection, perceived severity of infection, and perceived effectiveness of the health-protective behaviors. In a global cross-national analysis, effects were stronger in the U.S. (N = 10,923) than in an international sample (total N = 51,986), highlighting the increased and overt politicization of health behaviors in the U.S.
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