Dynamic relationships between different types of conspiracy theories about COVID-19 and protective behaviour: A four-wave panel study in Poland

Tomasz Oleksy, Anna Wnuk, Małgorzata Gambin and Agnieszka Łyś

Social Science & Medicine, 2021, vol. 280, issue C

Abstract: Conspiracy theories about COVID-19 pose a serious threat to public health by providing false information and undermining official health recommendations. However, existing studies rarely employed longitudinal designs, precluding the determination of the directionality between endorsement of conspiracy theories and its societal consequences. Also, relatively little research examined whether the association between protective health behaviour and the endorsement of conspiracy theories is affected by the content of a given theory.

Keywords: Conspiracy beliefs; Conspiracy mentality; COVID-19; Protective behaviour; Public health; Random-intercept cross-lagged panel models; Coronavirus; Threat of authoritarianism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114028

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