Moral Disengagement and Generalized Social Trust as Mediators and Moderators of Rule-Respecting Behaviors During the COVID-19 Outbreak

Frontiers in Psychology

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Guido Alessandri¹  Lorenzo Filosa¹  Marie S. Tisak²  Elisabetta Crocetti³  Giuseppe Crea⁴  Lorenzo Avanzi⁵ 

[1] Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome;Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, United States;Department of Psychology, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna;Department of Psychology, Salesian Pontifical University;Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento

关键词: moral disengagement;    big five;    dark triad;    COVID-19 outbreak;    rule-respecting behaviors;    social distance;    moderation;    mediation;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02102

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

In this study, we tested a theoretical model with moral disengagement, a mediator, and generalized social trust (GST), a mediator and a moderator of the relationship between personality traits and rule-respecting behaviors (i.e., social distancing and stay-at-home), during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak in Italy. The data were collected on 1520 participants (61% males). General results are threefold: (1) moral disengagement mediated the relationship between emotional stability, narcissism, psychopathy, and social distancing; (2) among components of GST, trust in Government mediated the relationship between psychopathy and social distancing; trust in known others mediated the relationship between emotional stability, agreeableness, and Machiavellianism with total number of exits; trust in unknown others mediated the relationship of emotional stability, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and psychopathy with average daily number of exits; (3) GST moderated the indirect effect of personality traits on rule-respecting behaviors through moral disengagement. The theoretical and practical importance of these results is discussed.

【 授权许可】

CC BY