Normand Alice, Marot Medhi, Darnon Céline
LAPSCO (UMR6024) UFR PSSSE Université Clermont Auvergne Clermont-Ferrand France.
Eur J Soc Psychol. 2022 Apr;52(3):448-456. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2828. Epub 2022 Apr 28.
The present research investigates economic insecurity as one potential determinant of citizens' compliance with restrictive policies implemented to combat the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Two pre-registered studies ( = 305; = 175) were conducted in France during the second and the third wave of the pandemic to test correlational (Study 1) and causal (Study 2) links between economic insecurity, perceived constraints, and transgressions (self-reported, Study 1; intended, Study 2). We hypothesized that the effect of economic insecurity is particularly strong for restrictions involving social affiliations (e.g., not meeting with friends and families). Results indicated that economic insecurity indeed increases perceived constraints and the tendency to transgress but for all types of restrictions (involving social affiliation or not). We propose that economic insecurity poses a threat to individuals' self-agency, which triggers psychological reactance to any form of restrictions on individual freedom.
本研究探讨经济不安全这一因素,它可能是公民遵守为抗击新冠病毒传播而实施的限制性政策的一个潜在决定因素。在法国疫情的第二波和第三波期间,开展了两项预先注册的研究(研究1样本量n = 305;研究2样本量n = 175),以检验经济不安全、感知到的限制与违规行为之间的相关关系(研究1)和因果关系(研究2)(研究1为自我报告的违规行为;研究2为预期的违规行为)。我们假设,经济不安全对涉及社会关系的限制(例如,不与朋友和家人见面)的影响尤为强烈。结果表明,经济不安全确实会增加感知到的限制和违规倾向,但适用于所有类型的限制(无论是否涉及社会关系)。我们认为,经济不安全对个人的自我能动性构成威胁,这会引发对任何形式的个人自由限制的心理反抗。