Di Marco Graziella, Hichy Zira, Sciacca Federica
Department of Educational Sciences University of Catania Catania Italy.
J Public Aff. 2021 Aug 11:e2739. doi: 10.1002/pa.2739.
Italy was the first European country to be affected by the Covid-19. To limit the contagion, an emergency protocol was triggered on March 10, 2020, which imposed a lockdown for 69 days. Many Italians considered the restrictions imposed by the government excessive and unnecessary. We hypothesized that agreement with government restrictions and compliance with imposed rules was positively correlated with trust in institutions, civic engagement, and the sense of community. To this end, during the lockdown period, we administered an online questionnaire to 189 Sicilians. The results showed that trust in institutional organizations and the attitude component of civic engagement facilitate the approval of limitations imposed during the lockdown period and the acceptance of future restrictions. Unexpectedly, the behavioral component of civic engagement leads to the rejection of restrictions and behaviors that could contain a further spread of the virus. Indeed, participants who declared that they were engaged in beneficial actions for their community disapproved of the measures already adopted and were unwilling to adopt future behaviors to limit the spread of the virus.
意大利是首个受新冠疫情影响的欧洲国家。为遏制疫情传播，2020年3月10日启动了一项紧急预案，实施了为期69天的封锁措施。许多意大利人认为政府实施的限制措施过度且不必要。我们推测，对政府限制措施的认同以及对所实施规定的遵守与对机构的信任、公民参与度和社区意识呈正相关。为此，在封锁期间，我们对189名西西里人进行了在线问卷调查。结果显示，对机构组织的信任以及公民参与度的态度成分有助于人们认可封锁期间实施的限制措施，并接受未来的限制措施。出乎意料的是，公民参与度的行为成分导致人们拒绝限制措施以及那些可能遏制病毒进一步传播的行为。事实上，宣称自己为社区从事有益行动的参与者不赞成已采取的措施，并且不愿意采取未来的行为来限制病毒传播。
