Wnuk Anna, Oleksy Tomasz, Maison Dominika
The Robert B. Zajonc Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
PLoS One. 2020 Sep 11;15(9):e0238973. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0238973. eCollection 2020.
New technological solutions play an important role in preventing the spread of Covid-19. Many countries have implemented tracking applications or other surveillance systems, which may raise concerns about privacy and civil rights violations but may be also perceived by citizens as a way to reduce threat and uncertainty. Our research examined whether feelings evoked by the pandemic (perceived threat and lack of control) as well as more stable ideological views predict the acceptance of such technologies. In two studies conducted in Poland, we found that perceived personal threat and lack of personal control were significantly positively related to the acceptance of surveillance technologies, but their predictive value was smaller than that of individual differences in authoritarianism and endorsement of liberty. Moreover, we found that the relationship between the acceptance of surveillance technologies and both perceived threat and lack of control was particularly strong among people high in authoritarianism. Our research shows that the negative feelings evoked by the unprecedented global crisis may inspire positive attitudes towards helpful but controversial surveillance technologies but that they do so to a lesser extent than ideological beliefs.
新技术解决方案在预防新冠病毒传播中发挥着重要作用。许多国家已实施追踪应用程序或其他监测系统，这可能引发对隐私和侵犯公民权利的担忧，但公民也可能将其视为减少威胁和不确定性的一种方式。我们的研究考察了疫情引发的感受（感知到的威胁和缺乏控制感）以及更稳定的意识形态观点是否能预测对这类技术的接受程度。在波兰进行的两项研究中，我们发现，感知到的个人威胁和缺乏个人控制感与对监测技术的接受程度显著正相关，但其预测价值小于威权主义和对自由的认可方面的个体差异。此外，我们发现，在威权主义程度高的人群中，对监测技术的接受程度与感知到的威胁和缺乏控制感之间的关系尤为强烈。我们的研究表明，前所未有的全球危机引发的负面情绪可能会激发对有益但有争议的监测技术的积极态度，但与意识形态信念相比，这种激发作用较小。
