Justice beliefs and cultural values predict support for COVID- 19 vaccination and quarantine behavioral mandates: a multilevel cross-national study

Lucas, Todd and Manning, Mark and Strelan, Peter and Kopetz, Catalina and Agostini, Maximilian and Belanger, Jocelyn J and Gutzkow, Ben and Kreienkamp, Jannis and PsyCorona, Collaboration and Leander, N Pontus and Abdul Khaiyom, Jamilah Hanum (2022) Justice beliefs and cultural values predict support for COVID- 19 vaccination and quarantine behavioral mandates: a multilevel cross-national study. Translational Behavioral Medicine, 12. pp. 284-290. ISSN 1869-6716

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Abstract

Understanding how individual beliefs and societal values influence support for measures to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmission is vital to developing and implementing effective prevention policies. Using both Just World Theory and Cultural Dimensions Theory, the present study considered how individual-level justice beliefs and country-level social values predict support for vaccination and quarantine policy mandates to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Data from an international survey of adults from 46 countries (N = 6424) were used to evaluate how individual-level beliefs about justice for self and others, as well as national values—that is, power distance, individualism, masculinity, uncertainty avoidance, long-term orientation, and indulgence—influence support for vaccination and quarantine behavioral mandates. Multilevel modeling revealed that support for vaccination and quarantine mandates were positively associated with individual-level beliefs about justice for self, and negatively associated with country-level uncertainty avoidance. Significant cross-level interactions revealed that beliefs about justice for self were associated more strongly with support for mandatory vaccination in countries high in individualism, whereas beliefs about justice for others were more strongly associated with support for vaccination and quarantine mandates in countries high in long-term orientation. Beliefs about justice and cultural values can independently and also interactively influence support for evidence-based practices to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission, such as vaccination and quarantine. Understanding these multilevel influences may inform efforts to develop and implement effective prevention policies in varied national contexts.

Item Type:	Article (Journal)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	COVID-19, Vaccination, Quarantine, Just world beliefs, Values, Cultural dimensions
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology > BF636 Applied psychology H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HM Sociology > HM1001 Social psychology H Social Sciences > HM Sociology > HM621 Culture R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA643 Communicable Diseases and Public Health R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA644.C67 Coronavirus infections. COVID-19 (Disease). COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences > Department of Psychology
Depositing User:	Dr Jamilah Hanum Abdul Khaiyom
Date Deposited:	18 Apr 2022 09:12
Last Modified:	18 Apr 2022 09:12
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/97651

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