On the association between socio-demographics and daily moralization during the pandemic

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically affected people's lives worldwide and provoked a vast variety of behavioural changes such as social distancing, increased hygiene measures, remote learning and working. Our study explores the association between individual differences based on socio-demographic characteristics such as gender, nationality, country of living, income, and well-being and the moralization of everyday life behaviours during the pandemic. We collected a large cross-cultural and multidimensional data set. By analysing the factor loadings of the moralisation scale using Confirmatory Multidimensional Item Response Theory (IRT) models, we found four distinct moralisation dimensions which were: unnecessary risk-taking, selfish behaviour, failing to do good, health and hygiene. We found no significant associations between socio-demographic variables and these moralisation dimensions. The impact of personality differences, emotional regulation, risk perception and pandemic fatigue on moralization needs to be investigated in future studies.  

Please cite this contribution as follows:

Yilmaz, F., Ramadeva, T.K., & Hildebrandt, A. (2023). On the association between socio-demographics and daily moralization during the pandemic. "forsch!" - Studentisches Online-Journal der Universität Oldenburg, 1.

https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023101018391064878986