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

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; Walker, Laura Padilla; Van der Graaff, Jolien

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0279366.r004

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

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Type of publication

Straipsnis Web of Science ir Scopus duomenų bazėje / Article in Web of Science and Scopus database (S1)

Author(s)

Author	Affiliation
De Moor, Elisabeth L.	Utrecht University
Cheng, Ting-Yu	Utrecht University
Spitzer, Jenna E.	Utrecht University
Berger, Christian	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Carrizales, Alexia	Purdue University
Garandeau, Claire F.	University of Turku
Gerbino, Maria	Sapienza University of Rome
Hawk, Skyler T.	Chinese University of Hong Kong
Kaniušonytė, Goda	Psichologijos institutas / Institute of Psychology
Kumru, Asiye	Ozyegin University
Malonda, Elisabeth	University of Valencia
Rovella, Anna	San Luis National University
Shen, Yuh-Ling	National Chung Cheng University
Taylor, Laura K.	University College Dublin
van Zalk, Maarten	Osnabrück University
Branje, Susan	Utrecht University
Carlo, Gustavo	Los Angeles
Walker, Laura Padilla	Brigham Young University
Van der Graaff, Jolien	Utrecht University

Title

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

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Publisher (trusted)

Public Library of Science (PLoS)

Date Issued

Date
2022

Extent

p. 1-14

Is part of

PLoS ONE. San Francisco : Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2022, vol. 17, iss. 12 (December).

Research Area

Socialiniai mokslai / Social sciences (S)

Field of Science

Psichologija / Psychology (S006)

Abstract (en)

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 (Mage = 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.