Short Communication
Songs and flags: Concern for Covid-19 and submission to authority

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Highlights

  • The mediation of values on COVID-19/authoritarianism relation was analysed.

  • 406 Italian subjects served as participants during the COVID-19 lockdown.

  • Results showed a full mediation for conservation values.

Abstract

The literature on authoritarianism has shown that the perception of threat and social insecurity is connected to attitudes of submission to authority and a greater acceptance of freedom restraints. In the present research, the relationship between concerns for COVID-19 – measured in terms of the fear of personal and close to others exposure to COVID-19 – on authoritarianism was analysed in Italy while considering participants' basic values as a potential mediator. Results on 406 participants show high mean values on concerns for COVID-19 experienced during the lockdown phase. As hypothesized, such concerns are positively related to authoritarianism, and a mediation analysis showed that the link between these two variables can be explained by the relevance attributed to conservation values.

Keywords

COVID-19
Authoritarianism
Values
Italy
Threat

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