ArticleBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2022
Trust in Institutions, Not in Political Leaders, Determines Compliance in COVID-19 Prevention Measures within Societies across the Globe.
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- Adherence to COVID-19 measures and the associated factors: evidence from a two-wave longitudinal study in Singapore.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Cognitive influences on biosecurity measure compliance during a global pandemic.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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- Neighborhood Governance and Happiness during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Empirical Analysis of Wuhan's Lockdown.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Thematic analysis of national online narratives on regular asymptomatic testing for Covid-19 in schools in England.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Riding the Pandemic Waves-Lessons to Be Learned from the COVID-19 Crisis Management in Romania.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2022Article
- Does trust in government improve Covid-19's crisis management?SN social sciences · 2022Article
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A core assumption often heard in public health discourse is that increasing trust in national political leaders is essential for securing public health compliance during crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic (2019-ongoing). However, studies of national government trust are typically too coarse-grained to differentiate between trust in institutions versus more interpersonal trust in political leaders. Here, we present multiscale trust measurements for twelve countries and territories across the West, Oceania and East Asia. These trust results were used to identify which specific domains of government and social trust were most crucial for securing public health compliance (frequency of mask wearing and social distancing) and understanding the reasons for following health measures (belief in effectiveness of public health measures). Through the use of linear regression and structural equation modeling, our cross-cultural survey-based analysis (
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