Łowicki Paweł, Marchlewska Marta, Molenda Zuzanna, Karakula Adam, Szczepańska Dagmara
Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
Pers Individ Dif. 2022 Mar;187:111413. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.111413. Epub 2021 Nov 27.
There has been an increasing interest in the relationship between religion and psychosocial functioning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Interestingly, emerging recent findings suggest that religiousness may have a Janus-face impact on how people cope with the pandemic, leading to both positive and negative social outcomes. In this project, we examine whether two types of religiousness (i.e., centrality of religiosity and religious fundamentalism) are associated with COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs and socially undesirable behavior during the pandemic. We suggest that only the most dogmatic and fundamentalistic type of religiousness could lead to conspiracy beliefs, while centrality of religiosity could be unrelated or even negatively related to this type of thinking. In a series of two studies ( = 361 and = 394) conducted among Polish Roman Catholics, we demonstrate that religious fundamentalism, unlike centrality of religiosity, is positively related to coronavirus conspiracy beliefs, which, in turn, promote socially maladaptive behavior such as freeriding or non-adherence to safety guidelines.
在新冠疫情期间，人们对宗教与心理社会功能之间的关系越来越感兴趣。有趣的是，最近出现的研究结果表明，宗教信仰可能对人们应对疫情的方式产生两面性的影响，从而导致积极和消极的社会结果。在这个项目中，我们研究了两种宗教信仰类型（即宗教信仰的核心地位和宗教原教旨主义）是否与新冠疫情期间的阴谋论信念以及不良社会行为有关。我们认为，只有最教条和原教旨主义的宗教信仰类型才会导致阴谋论信念，而宗教信仰的核心地位可能与此类思维无关，甚至呈负相关。在对波兰罗马天主教徒进行的两项研究（N1 = 361，N2 = 394）中，我们证明，与宗教信仰的核心地位不同，宗教原教旨主义与新冠病毒阴谋论信念呈正相关，而这种信念反过来又会助长搭便车或不遵守安全准则等社会适应不良行为。
