Sampaio Leonardo Rodrigues, Constantino Marya Klara Rodrigues, Pires Michelle França Dourado Neto, de Lima Sousa Santos Tamires, Caetano Luciana Maria, Dell'Agli Betânia Alves Veiga, Dos Santos Isabele Tenório
Universidade Federal de Campina Grande - UFCG, Campina Grande - PB, Brazil.
Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco - Univasf, Petrolina - PE, Brazil.
Trends Psychol. 2023;31(1):171-193. doi: 10.1007/s43076-021-00130-x. Epub 2022 Jan 14.
For a year now, the world has been facing the pandemic of COVID-19, which has affected many sectors of society in an unprecedented proportion. The main objective of this paper was to investigate whether there are relationships between empathy, prosocial behavior, and adherence to measures to fight COVID-19 in a sample of Brazilian participants. Results point to the influence of education, living conditions, political orientation, and empathy on the adoption of measures to contain the virus, and on personal impressions regarding the disease. Specifically, participants with more years of education, with better conditions of practice social distancing, and those who identified themselves as leftist or center-leftist were more favourable to adopting virus containment measures and to practicing physical distancing. Higher levels of empathy were also associated to more positive attitudes concerning those measures. It is argued that political polarization and divergences between discourses by scientists, health authorities, politicians, and the Brazilian rulers may be reinforcing the perception of division in society. This, in turn, inhibits the building of a collectivistic view concerning COVID-19, which would be crucial to cope with the pandemic.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s43076-021-00130-x.
一年来，世界一直面临着新冠疫情，它以前所未有的比例影响了社会的许多部门。本文的主要目的是调查在巴西参与者样本中，同理心、亲社会行为与遵守抗击新冠疫情措施之间是否存在关联。结果表明，教育程度、生活条件、政治倾向和同理心对采取病毒防控措施以及对该疾病的个人看法有影响。具体而言，受教育年限更长、社交距离实践条件更好以及那些将自己认定为左派或中左派的参与者，更倾向于采取病毒防控措施并践行物理距离。更高水平的同理心也与对这些措施更积极的态度相关。有人认为，政治两极分化以及科学家、卫生当局、政治家和巴西统治者言论之间的分歧可能会强化社会分裂的观念。反过来，这抑制了关于新冠疫情的集体主义观念的形成，而这种观念对于应对疫情至关重要。
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