Perceived Government Transparency and COVID-19 Conspiracy Beliefs: The Mediating Role of Conspiracy Mentality.

IF 1.7 4区 心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Psychological Reports Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2023-03-08 DOI:10.1177/00332941231161789
Tomasz Besta, Julia Nęcka, Michał Jaśkiewicz
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As transparency is believed to be a key factor linked to trust in the government, we explore the link between the perceived lack of transparency and COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs. Two studies were conducted (N1 = 264 and N2 = 113) using both correlational (Study 1) and experimental (Study 2) designs. The results show a positive relationship between the perception of a lack of transparencies in the context of pandemic policies (Study 1), general lack of transparency in the decision-making process (Study 2), and belief in conspiracy theories about the emergence of the COVID-19 virus and vaccines' related fake news. This effect was mediated by a general conspiracy mentality. That is, people who evaluated policies as non-transparent presented a higher conspiracy mentality, and this, in turn, was related to belief in specific COVID-19 conspiracy theories.

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感知到的政府透明度与 COVID-19 阴谋信念:阴谋心态的中介作用。
由于透明度被认为是与对政府的信任相关联的一个关键因素,因此我们探讨了缺乏透明度的感知与 COVID-19 阴谋信念之间的联系。我们采用相关设计(研究 1)和实验设计(研究 2)进行了两项研究(N1 = 264 和 N2 = 113)。结果显示,在大流行病政策方面缺乏透明度的感知(研究 1)、决策过程中普遍缺乏透明度的感知(研究 2)与对 COVID-19 病毒出现的阴谋论和疫苗相关假新闻的信念之间存在正相关关系。这种影响是由普遍的阴谋论心态所中介的。也就是说,将政策评价为不透明的人具有更高的阴谋论心态,而这反过来又与对特定 COVID-19 阴谋论的信念有关。
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