Moral Disengagement and Generalized Social Trust as Mediators and Moderators of Rule-Respecting Behaviors During the COVID-19 Outbreak
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 20...
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doaj-48f652a64402408d8b1d406ed0ab57052020-11-25T03:52:04ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782020-08-011110.3389/fpsyg.2020.02102566127Moral Disengagement and Generalized Social Trust as Mediators and Moderators of Rule-Respecting Behaviors During the COVID-19 OutbreakGuido Alessandri0Lorenzo Filosa1Marie S. Tisak2Elisabetta Crocetti3Giuseppe Crea4Lorenzo Avanzi5Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, ItalyDepartment of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, ItalyDepartment of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling, OH, United StatesDepartment of Psychology, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna, ItalyDepartment of Psychology, Salesian Pontifical University, Rome, ItalyDepartment of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Trento, ItalyIn 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.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02102/fullmoral disengagementbig fivedark triadCOVID-19 outbreakrule-respecting behaviorssocial distance |
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Guido Alessandri Lorenzo Filosa Marie S. Tisak Elisabetta Crocetti Giuseppe Crea Lorenzo Avanzi Moral Disengagement and Generalized Social Trust as Mediators and Moderators of Rule-Respecting Behaviors During the COVID-19 Outbreak Frontiers in Psychology moral disengagement big five dark triad COVID-19 outbreak rule-respecting behaviors social distance |
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Guido Alessandri Lorenzo Filosa Marie S. Tisak Elisabetta Crocetti Giuseppe Crea Lorenzo Avanzi |
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Moral Disengagement and Generalized Social Trust as Mediators and Moderators of Rule-Respecting Behaviors During the COVID-19 Outbreak |
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Moral Disengagement and Generalized Social Trust as Mediators and Moderators of Rule-Respecting Behaviors During the COVID-19 Outbreak |
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Moral Disengagement and Generalized Social Trust as Mediators and Moderators of Rule-Respecting Behaviors During the COVID-19 Outbreak |
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Moral Disengagement and Generalized Social Trust as Mediators and Moderators of Rule-Respecting Behaviors During the COVID-19 Outbreak |
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Moral Disengagement and Generalized Social Trust as Mediators and Moderators of Rule-Respecting Behaviors During the COVID-19 Outbreak |
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moral disengagement and generalized social trust as mediators and moderators of rule-respecting behaviors during the covid-19 outbreak |
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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. |
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moral disengagement big five dark triad COVID-19 outbreak rule-respecting behaviors social distance |
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