Greater traditionalism predicts COVID-19 precautionary behaviors across 27 societies

Samore, T, Fessler, DMT, Sparks, AM, Holbrook, C, Aarøe, L, Baeza, CG, Barbato, MT, Barclay, P, Berniūnas, R, Contreras-Garduño, J, Costa-Neves, B, Del Pilar Grazioso, M, Elmas, P, Fedor, P, Fernandez, AM, Fernández-Morales, R, Garcia-Marques, L, Giraldo-Perez, P, Gul, P, Habacht, F, Hasan, Y, Hernandez, J, Jarmakowski, T, Kamble, S, Kameda, T, Kim, B, Kupfer, TR ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1147-6082, Kurita, M, Li, NP, Lu, J, Luberti, FR, Maegli, MA, Mejia, M, Morvinski, C, Naito, A, Ng’ang’a, A, Nascimento De Oliveira, A, Posner, DN, Prokop, P, Shani, Y, Omar, W, Solorzano, P, Stieger, S, Suryani, AO, Tan, LKL, Tybur, JM, Viciana, H, Visine, A, Wang, J and Wang, X-T, 2023. Greater traditionalism predicts COVID-19 precautionary behaviors across 27 societies. Scientific Reports, 13: 4969. ISSN 2045-2322

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Abstract

People vary both in their embrace of their society’s traditions, and in their perception of hazards as salient and necessitating a response. Over evolutionary time, traditions have offered avenues for addressing hazards, plausibly resulting in linkages between orientations toward tradition and orientations toward danger. Emerging research documents connections between traditionalism and threat responsivity, including pathogen-avoidance motivations. Additionally, because hazard-mitigating behaviors can conflict with competing priorities, associations between traditionalism and pathogen avoidance may hinge on contextually contingent tradeoffs. The COVID-19 pandemic provides a real-world test of the posited relationship between traditionalism and hazard avoidance. Across 27 societies (N = 7844), we find that, in a majority of countries, individuals’ endorsement of tradition positively correlates with their adherence to costly COVID-19-avoidance behaviors; accounting for some of the conflicts that arise between public health precautions and other objectives further strengthens this evidence that traditionalism is associated with greater attention to hazards.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Scientific Reports
Creators:	Samore, T., Fessler, D.M.T., Sparks, A.M., Holbrook, C., Aarøe, L., Baeza, C.G., Barbato, M.T., Barclay, P., Berniūnas, R., Contreras-Garduño, J., Costa-Neves, B., Del Pilar Grazioso, M., Elmas, P., Fedor, P., Fernandez, A.M., Fernández-Morales, R., Garcia-Marques, L., Giraldo-Perez, P., Gul, P., Habacht, F., Hasan, Y., Hernandez, J., Jarmakowski, T., Kamble, S., Kameda, T., Kim, B., Kupfer, T.R., Kurita, M., Li, N.P., Lu, J., Luberti, F.R., Maegli, M.A., Mejia, M., Morvinski, C., Naito, A., Ng’ang’a, A., Nascimento De Oliveira, A., Posner, D.N., Prokop, P., Shani, Y., Omar, W., Solorzano, P., Stieger, S., Suryani, A.O., Tan, L.K.L., Tybur, J.M., Viciana, H., Visine, A., Wang, J. and Wang, X.-T.
Publisher:	Springer
Date:	11 April 2023
Volume:	13
ISSN:	2045-2322
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1038/s41598-023-29655-0 DOI 2366381 Other
Rights:	© the author(s) 2023. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	04 Feb 2025 12:31
Last Modified:	04 Feb 2025 12:31
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/52966

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