What Should I do and Who’s to blame? A cross-national study on youth’s attitudes and beliefs in times of COVID-19

The COVID-19 crisis has had a major impact on youth. This study examined factors associated with youth’s attitudes towards their government’s response to the pandemic and their blaming of individuals from certain risk groups, ethnic backgrounds, and countries or regions. In a sample of 5,682 young a...

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Autores principales: De Moor, Elisabeth L., Cheng, Ting-Yu, Spitzer, Jenna E., Berger, Christian, Carrizales, Alexia, Garandeau, Claire F., Gerbino, Maria, Hawk, Skyler T., Kaniušonytė, Goda, Kumru, Asiye, Malonda, Elisabeth, Rovella, Anna, Shen, Yuh-Ling, Taylor, Laura K., van Zalk, Maarten, Branje, Susan, Carlo, Gustavo, Padilla Walker, Laura, Van der Graaff, Jolien
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9770422/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36542632
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279366
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Sumario:The COVID-19 crisis has had a major impact on youth. This study examined factors associated with youth’s attitudes towards their government’s response to the pandemic and their blaming of individuals from certain risk groups, ethnic backgrounds, and countries or regions. In a sample of 5,682 young adults (M(age) = 22) from 14 countries, lower perceived burden due to COVID-19, more collectivistic and less individualistic values, and more empathy were associated with more positive attitudes towards the government and less blaming of individuals of certain groups. Youth’s social identification with others in the pandemic mediated these associations in the same direction, apart from the COVID-19 burden on attitudes, which had a positive indirect effect. No evidence of country-level moderation was found.

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