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Moral Disengagement and Generalized Social Trust as Mediators and Moderators of Rule-Respecting Behaviors During the COVID-19 Outbreak.
- Source :
- Frontiers in Psychology; 8/27/2020, Vol. 11, pN.PAG-N.PAG, 18p
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 16641078
- Volume :
- 11
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Frontiers in Psychology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 145368402
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02102