DeCaro Daniel A, DeCaro Marci S
Social Decision Making and Sustainability Lab, Department of Urban and Public Affairs, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Louisville, 426 W. Bloom St., Louisville, KY 40208 USA.
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, USA.
Motiv Emot. 2023;47(1):7-27. doi: 10.1007/s11031-022-09974-x. Epub 2022 Aug 10.
Compliance with health safety guidelines is essential during pandemics. However, political polarization in the U.S. is reducing compliance. We investigated how polarized perceptions of government leaders' autonomy-support and enforcement policies impacted security and internally-motivated compliance with national (Study 1a) and state (Study 1b) safety guidelines. We surveyed 773 Republicans and Democrats from four states (California, Florida, New York, Texas) during the first wave of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. Overall, participants perceived that the decision processes of opposing political administrations did not support their autonomy. Lack of autonomy-support was associated with reduced security and internal motivations to comply ( = 50.83%). When political administrations enforced health safety mandates (Democrat state leaders in this study) and were perceived as autonomy-supportive, participants reported the highest security and internally-motivated compliance ( = 49.57%). This effect was especially pronounced for Republicans, who reacted negatively to enforcement without autonomy-support. Political leaders who use fair and supportive decision-making processes may legitimize enforcement of health safety guidelines, improving compliance.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11031-022-09974-x.
在大流行期间，遵守健康安全准则至关重要。然而，美国的政治两极分化正在降低遵守程度。我们调查了对政府领导人自主支持和执法政策的两极分化看法如何影响对国家（研究1a）和州（研究1b）安全准则的安全感和内在驱动的遵守情况。在2020年新冠疫情第一波期间，我们对来自四个州（加利福尼亚州、佛罗里达州、纽约州、得克萨斯州）的773名共和党人和民主党人进行了调查。总体而言，参与者认为对立政治政府的决策过程不支持他们的自主性。缺乏自主支持与安全感降低和遵守的内在动机减少有关（=50.83%）。当政治政府执行健康安全指令（本研究中的民主党州领导人）并被视为支持自主性时，参与者报告的安全感和内在驱动的遵守程度最高（=49.57%）。这种影响在共和党人身上尤为明显，他们对没有自主支持的执法反应消极。使用公平和支持性决策过程的政治领导人可能会使健康安全准则的执行合法化，从而提高遵守程度。
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