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Lives versus Livelihoods? Perceived economic risk has a stronger association with support for COVID-19 preventive measures than perceived health risk

C. Nisa,J. Bélanger,D. Faller,Nicholas R. Buttrick,J. Mierau,Maura M K Austin,B. Schumpe,E. Sasin,Maximilian Agostini,Ben Gützkow,Jannis Kreienkamp,G. Abakoumkin,J. H. Abdul Khaiyom,Vjollca Ahmedi,Handan Akkaş,Carlos A. Almenara,Mohsin Atta,S. Bagci,Sima Basel,E. Kida,Allan B. I. Bernardo,Phatthanakit Chobthamkit,Hoon-Seok Choi,Mioara Cristea,Sára Csaba,K. Damnjanović,I. Danyliuk,Arobindu Dash,D. di Santo,Karen M. Douglas,V. Enea,G. Fitzsimons,Alexandra Gheorghiu,Á. Gómez,Joanna Grzymała-Moszczyńska,A. Hamaidia,Qing-xiao Han,Mai Helmy,Joevarian Hudiyana,B. Jeronimus,Ding-Yu Jiang,V. Jovanović,Željka Kamenov,Anna Kende,S. Keng,T. T. B. Kieu,Y. Koç,Kamila Kovyazina,I. Kozytska,Joshua Krause,A. Kruglanski,Anton Kurapov,Maja Kutlaca,N. Lantos,E. Lemay,C. B. J. Lesmana,W. Louis,Adrian Lueders,N. Malik,Antón P. Martínez,Kira O. McCabe,J. Mehulić,M. N. Milla,Idris Mohammed,E. Molinario,Manuel Moyano,Hayat Muhammad,Silvana Mula,H. Muluk,S. Myroniuk,R. Najafi,Boglárka Nyúl,Paul A. O’Keefe,José Javier Olivas Osuna,E. Osin,Joonha Park,G. Pica,Antonio Pierro,Jonas H. Rees,A. M. Reitsema,E. Resta,Marika Rullo,Michelle K. Ryan,A. Samekin,P. Santtila,Heyla A. Selim,M. Stanton,S. Sultana,Robbie M. Sutton,E. Tseliou,Akira Utsugi,J. V. van Breen,C. V. van Lissa,Kees Van Veen,M. vanDellen,A. Vázquez,Robin Wollast,V. Yeung,S. Zand,I. Žeželj,B. Zheng,A. Zick,Claudia Zúñiga,N. Leander

Published 2021 in Scientific Reports

ABSTRACT

This paper examines whether compliance with COVID-19 mitigation measures is motivated by wanting to save lives or save the economy (or both), and which implications this carries to fight the pandemic. National representative samples were collected from 24 countries (N = 25,435). The main predictors were (1) perceived risk to contract coronavirus, (2) perceived risk to suffer economic losses due to coronavirus, and (3) their interaction effect. Individual and country-level variables were added as covariates in multilevel regression models. We examined compliance with various preventive health behaviors and support for strict containment policies. Results show that perceived economic risk consistently predicted mitigation behavior and policy support—and its effects were positive. Perceived health risk had mixed effects. Only two significant interactions between health and economic risk were identified—both positive.

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