Factors of Covid-skepticism in Russia: results of analysis of materials from two waves of the longitudinal survey “Values in Crisis”
ФАКТОРЫ КОВИД-СКЕПТИЦИЗМА В РОССИИ: РЕЗУЛЬТАТЫ АНАЛИЗА МАТЕРИАЛОВ ДВУХ ВОЛН ЛОНГИТЮДНОГО ОПРОСА «ЦЕННОСТИ В КРИЗИСЕ»
Afanasyeva Y.A. Sokolov B.O. Shirokanova A.A.
2023Russian Public Opinion Research Center, VCIOM
Monitoring Obshchestvennogo Mneniya: Ekonomicheskie i Sotsialnye Peremeny
2023Issue 5115 - 137 pp.
This study aims at assessing the over-time stability of associations between COVID-19 skepticism and various socio-demographic and personality characteristics. For this purpose, the authors use data from two waves (June 2020, N = 1527; and April-May 2021, N = 1199, including 978 follow-up respondents) of the online panel survey ‘Values in Crisis’ (ViC). The findings from the second wave generally replicate the patterns observed in the data from the first wave, published earlier. In particular, COVID-19 skeptics are, on average, younger, have lower levels of educational attainment, higher scores on Schwartz’s value of openness to change, and lower scores on Schwartz’s value of conservatism. They are more likely to express xenophobic views but demonstrate lower levels of institutional trust and COVID-related anxiety. Yet, in contrast to mid-2020, COVID-19 skepticism is more widespread among low-income respondents while the ‘sobering’ effect of exposure to the disease has vanished. A few novel questions, absent in the questionnaire of the first wave but added in the second wave, indicate that skeptics are more likely to report good health and prone to conspiracy thinking.
conspiracy theories , COVID-19 , COVID-19 skepticism , institutional trust , Schwartz’s basic values , science skepticism
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Almaty, Kazakhstan
HSE University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
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