Hassan Mohammed Salah, Al Halbusi Hussam, Razali Asbah, Ariffin Raja Noriza Raja, Williams Kent A
Faculty of Business and Economics, Department of Public Administration, University of Malaya, Zip Code: 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Management Department, Ahmed Bin Mohammed Military College (ABMMC), P.O. Box, 22988 Doha, Qatar.
Curr Psychol. 2022 Mar 19:1-16. doi: 10.1007/s12144-022-02947-w.
Governments around the world have issued movement restrictions and quarantines to combat the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic. However, the Swedish government has not implemented such measures but has depended on individual responsibility. The extent to which individuals have been encouraged to trust in and be satisfied with government strategies and adopt personal health measures, such as social isolation, remains unclear. This study examines the direct effects of trust in the government and risk perception on self-efficacy. Most importantly, this study intends to explore whether satisfaction with government measures strengthens the relationships between 1) trust in the government and self-efficacy and 2) risk perception and self-efficacy. We test our suggested hypotheses using survey data obtained from 403 Swedish citizens living in Sweden. As predicted, the findings indicate that trust in the government and risk perception positively impact individual self-efficacy. Additionally, the findings reveal that satisfaction with government measures strengthens these relationships; more precisely, the impact of trust in the government and risk perception under a high level of individual satisfaction with government measures is much more positive than that under a low satisfaction level. In practice, a focus on implementing successful policies and excellent individual self-efficacy is required to halt the pandemic, and the findings indicate that combining strictly attentive and adaptive individual strategies with government strategies can minimize the spread of infection.
世界各国政府已发布行动限制和隔离措施，以抗击严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒2（SARS-CoV-2，即新冠病毒）疫情。然而，瑞典政府并未实施此类措施，而是依赖个人责任。个人在多大程度上被鼓励信任并满意政府策略，以及采取诸如社交隔离等个人健康措施，仍不明确。本研究考察了对政府的信任和风险认知对自我效能感的直接影响。最重要的是，本研究旨在探讨对政府措施的满意度是否会加强以下两组关系：1）对政府的信任与自我效能感之间的关系，以及2）风险认知与自我效能感之间的关系。我们使用从403名居住在瑞典的瑞典公民那里获得的调查数据来检验我们提出的假设。正如预测的那样，研究结果表明，对政府的信任和风险认知对个人自我效能感有积极影响。此外，研究结果还显示，对政府措施的满意度会加强这些关系；更确切地说，在个人对政府措施高度满意的情况下，对政府的信任和风险认知的影响比对政府措施满意度低的情况下要积极得多。在实践中，要阻止疫情，需要专注于实施成功的政策和培养良好的个人自我效能感，研究结果表明，将严格专注和适应性强的个人策略与政府策略相结合，可以最大限度地减少感染传播。
