Political Beliefs and Legitimacy of Government Restrictions During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Marek Palace, Manish Madan, Brandon May, Lee Smith, Sarah Daly, Sylvia Terbeck, Torrin Jacobson

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Article in Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Marek PalaceSchool of Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L2 2QP, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3016-2118

Manish MadanSchool of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Stockton University, Galloway, NJ 08205, USA.

Brandon MaySchool of Psychology, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL 32901, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4582-7904

Lee SmithCentre for Health Performance and Wellbeing, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge CB1 1PT, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-5340-9833

Sarah DalyDepartment of Psychological Science, Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, PA 15650, USA.

Sylvia TerbeckSchool of Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L2 2QP, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-0417-7527

Torrin JacobsonSchool of Psychology, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL 32901, USA.ORCID 0009-0005-9002-8887

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Abstract

The current paper examines how individual/personality factors are associated with the political legitimacy of government restrictions at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 1262 US-based participants completed an online survey comprising several scales (predictor factors), such as the

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COVID-19 pandemicindividual factorspolitical views

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PMID42193645

DOI10.3390/bs16050765

PMCPMC13203272

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