Journal
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
Volume 187, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.111413
Keywords
Conspiracy beliefs; COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs; Religiousness; Centrality of religiosity; Religious fundamentalism; Freeriding; Non-adherence to safety guidelines
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- Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (DIALOG Grant) [0013/2019]
- National Science Centre, Poland [2019/35/B/HS6/00123]
- Research Ethics Committee of the Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences [18/XI/2019]
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There is an increasing interest in the relationship between religion and psychosocial functioning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Recent findings suggest that religious fundamentalism is positively related to coronavirus conspiracy beliefs, which then lead to socially maladaptive behavior.
There has been an increasing interest in the relationship between religion and psychosocial functioning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Interestingly, emerging recent findings suggest that religiousness may have a Janusface impact on how people cope with the pandemic, leading to both positive and negative social outcomes. In this project, we examine whether two types of religiousness (i.e., centrality of religiosity and religious fundamentalism) are associated with COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs and socially undesirable behavior during the pandemic. We suggest that only the most dogmatic and fundamentalistic type of religiousness could lead to conspiracy beliefs, while centrality of religiosity could be unrelated or even negatively related to this type of thinking. In a series of two studies (N = 361 and N = 394) conducted among Polish Roman Catholics, we demonstrate that religious fundamentalism, unlike centrality of religiosity, is positively related to coronavirus conspiracy beliefs, which, in turn, promote socially maladaptive behavior such as freeriding or non-adherence to safety guidelines.
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