Who Supported the Strong Preventive Measures During the Covid-19 Pandemic?

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10.2991/assehr.k.210519.130How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Disgust sensitivity, Covid-19, Patriotism

Abstract

The current Coronavirus pandemic has caused large-scale negative consequences to the economic developments as well as the society on a global scale. To prevent the further spreading of the virus, most governments have put forward a set of very strong measures that restrict citizen’s freedom to some extent (the most striking examples are the series of measurements taken during the lockdown phase). However, it is yet well established who might follow these measurements and who might not. The current study offers an innovative look at the personal characteristics that may link to one’s support for these strong preventive measures. The survey study found no supportive evidence for the positive relationships between disgust sensitivity as well as of patriotism to one’s support to strong preventive measures. The interviews conducted further suggest that people’s support for the policies might decrease over time and that one might only support the policies when it’s absolutely necessary. The paper also discusses implications, limitations, and future directions of the current study.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jinghui Wang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/05/20
TI  - Who Supported the Strong Preventive Measures During the Covid-19 Pandemic?
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 660
EP  - 664
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210519.130
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210519.130
ID  - Wang2021
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