Power Nicola, Warmelink Lara, Wallace Rebecca
Department of Psychology, Fylde College Lancaster University Lancaster UK.
J Community Appl Soc Psychol. 2022 Sep 6. doi: 10.1002/casp.2650.
The British public generally adhered to COVID-19-related restrictions, but as the pandemic drew on, it became challenging for some populations. Parents with young children were identified as a vulnerable group. We collected rich, mixed-methods survey data from 99 UK-based parents (91 mothers) of children under 12, who described their lockdown transgressions. Household mixing was the most prevalent broken rule. Template analysis found that rule breaking was driven by 'ingroup-level' prosocial motivations to protect the mental and social health of family and loved ones, and that parents were 'engaged' decision-makers who underwent careful deliberation when deciding to break rules, making trade-offs, bending rules, mitigating risks, reaching consensus, and reacting to perceived rule injustices. Cumulative link models found that the perceived reasonableness of rule violations was predicted by social norms. Rules were broken by parents not for antisocial reasons, but for 'ingroup-level' prosocial reasons, linked to supporting loved ones.
英国公众总体上遵守了与新冠疫情相关的限制措施，但随着疫情的持续，对一些人群来说变得具有挑战性。有幼儿的父母被确定为弱势群体。我们从99名居住在英国、孩子年龄在12岁以下的父母（91名母亲）那里收集了丰富的混合方法调查数据，他们描述了自己违反封锁规定的情况。家庭聚会是最普遍违反的规定。模板分析发现，违规行为是由“群体层面”的亲社会动机驱动的，即为了保护家人和亲人的心理健康和社会健康，而且父母是“有参与度的”决策者，在决定违规时会经过仔细思考，进行权衡、变通规则、降低风险、达成共识，并对察觉到的规则不公做出反应。累积链接模型发现，社会规范可以预测对违规行为合理性的认知。父母违反规则并非出于反社会原因，而是出于与支持亲人相关的“群体层面”亲社会原因。
