Pandemic threat and group cohesion: national identification in the wake of COVID-19 is associated with authoritarianism
| Autor: | Paul J. Maher, Jenny Roth, Siobhán Griffin, Aoife Marie Foran, Sarah Jay, Cillian McHugh, Megan Ryan, Daragh Bradshaw, Michael Quayle, Orla T Muldoon |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Datacite UnpayWall ORCID |
| DOI: | 10.6084/m9.figshare.19145190.v1 |
| Popis: | Authoritarianism emerges in times of societal threat, in part driven by desires for group-based security. As such, we propose that the threat caused by the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with increased authoritarian tendencies and that this can be partially explained by increased national identification. We tested this hypothesis by collecting cross-sectional data from three different countries in April 2020. In Study 1, data from Ireland (N = 1276) showed that pandemic threat predicted increased national identification, which in turn predicted authoritarianism. In Study 2, we replicated this indirect effect in a representative UK sample (N = 506). In Study 3, we used an alternative measure of authoritarianism and conceptually replicated this effect among USA citizens (N = 429). In this US sample, the association between threat and authoritarian tendencies was stronger among progressives compared to conservatives. Findings are discussed and linked to group-based models of authoritarianism. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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