Coelho Gabriel Lins de Holanda, Hanel Paul H P, Vilar Roosevelt, Monteiro Renan Pereira, Cardoso Fadja Jairles Vieira, Gouveia Valdiney Veloso
University College Cork, Ireland.
University of Essex, United Kingdom.
Pers Individ Dif. 2021 Sep;179:110890. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.110890. Epub 2021 Apr 16.
One of the main challenges governments faced during the Covid-19 pandemic was to balance economic considerations with protecting the health of people (i.e., economic vs humanitarian motives). In the present study ( = 296), we investigated whether human values, political orientation, and fear of Covid-19 predicted economic and humanitarian motives. We found that people holding self-enhancement and normative values, had lower levels of Covid-19 fear, and were more right-leaning in terms of their political orientation, tended to prioritize the economy. In contrast, people valuing normative values less, interactive values more, reported higher levels of Covid-19 related fear, and were more left-leaning, tended to prioritize the health of people. Importantly, values explained variance above and beyond political orientation and fear of Covid-19. Together, our findings highlight the importance of values in decision making.
政府在新冠疫情期间面临的主要挑战之一是在经济考量与保护民众健康之间取得平衡（即经济动机与人道主义动机之间的平衡）。在本研究（样本量 = 296）中，我们调查了人类价值观、政治倾向以及对新冠的恐惧是否能预测经济动机和人道主义动机。我们发现，持有自我提升价值观和规范价值观、对新冠的恐惧程度较低且政治倾向更偏右的人，往往将经济置于优先地位。相比之下，不太重视规范价值观、更重视互动价值观、报告的与新冠相关的恐惧程度较高且更偏左的人，往往将民众健康置于优先地位。重要的是，价值观在解释方差时超越了政治倾向和对新冠的恐惧。总之，我们的研究结果凸显了价值观在决策中的重要性。
