‘We are all in the same boat’: How societal discontent affects intention to help during the COVID-19 pandemic

Resta E. Mula S. Baldner C. Di Santo D. Agostini M. Bélanger J.J. Gützkow B. Kreienkamp J. Abakoumkin G. Khaiyom J.H.A. Ahmedi V. Akkas H. Almenara C.A. Atta M. Bagci S.C. Basel S. Kida E.B. Bernardo A.B.I. Buttrick N.R. Chobthamkit P. Choi H.-S. Cristea M. Csaba S. Damnjanović K. Danyliuk I. Dash A. Douglas K.M. Enea V. Faller D.G. Fitzsimons G.J. Gheorghiu A. Gómez Á. Hamaidia A. Han Q. Helmy M. Hudiyana J. Jeronimus B.F. Jiang D.-Y. Jovanović V. Kamenov Z. Kende A. Keng S.-L. Kieu T.T.T. Koc Y. Kovyazina K. Kozytska I. Krause J. Kruglanski A.W. Kurapov A. Kutlaca M. Lantos N.A. Lemay E.P., Jr. Lesmana C.B.J. Louis W.R. Lueders A. Malik N.I. Martinez A.P. McCabe K.O. Mehulić J. Milla M.N. Mohammed I. Molinario E. Moyano M. Muhammad H. Muluk H. Myroniuk S. Najafi R. Nisa C.F. Nyúl B. OKeefe P.A. Osuna J.J.O. Osin E.N. Park J. Pica G. Pierro A. Rees J.H. Reitsema A.M. Rullo M. Ryan M.K. Samekin A. Santtila P. Sasin E. Schumpe B.M. Selim H.A. Stanton M.V. Stroebe W. Sultana S. Sutton R.M. Tseliou E. Utsugi A. van Breen J.A. van Lissa C.J. van Veen K. van Dellen M.R. Vázquez A. Wollast R. Yeung V.W.-L. Zand S. Žeželj I.L. Zheng B. Zick A. Zúñiga C. Leander N.P.
March/April 2022 John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology
2022 #32 Issue 2 332 - 347 pp.

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused a global health crisis. Consequently, many countries have adopted restrictive measures that caused a substantial change in society. Within this framework, it is reasonable to suppose that a sentiment of societal discontent, defined as generalized concern about the precarious state of society, has arisen. Literature shows that collectively experienced situations can motivate people to help each other. Since societal discontent is conceptualized as a collective phenomenon, we argue that it could influence intention to help others, particularly those who suffer from coronavirus. Thus, in the present study, we aimed (a) to explore the relationship between societal discontent and intention to help at the individual level and (b) to investigate a possible moderating effect of societal discontent at the country level on this relationship. To fulfil our purposes, we used data collected in 42 countries (N = 61,734) from the PsyCorona Survey, a cross-national longitudinal study. Results of multilevel analysis showed that, when societal discontent is experienced by the entire community, individuals dissatisfied with society are more prone to help others. Testing the model with longitudinal data (N = 3,817) confirmed our results. Implications for those findings are discussed in relation to crisis management. Please refer to the Supplementary Material section to find this articles Community and Social Impact Statement.

COVID-19 , intention to help , societal discontent

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Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Department of Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Department of Psychology, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Laboratory of Psychology, Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
Department of Psychology, International Islamic University Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia
Pedagogy, Pristine University, Serbia
Business Administration Department, Ankara Science University, Ankara, Turkey
Faculty of Health Science, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Santiago de Surco, Peru
Department of Psychology, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan
Department of Psychology, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
Department of Social Sciences, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Faculty of Education, Pristine University, Serbia
Department of Psychology, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States
Department of Psychology, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Department of Psychology, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea
Department of Psychology, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Doctoral School of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Department of Psychology, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Department of Psychology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine
Department of Social Sciences, International University of Business Agriculture and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh
School of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Department of Psychology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași, Romania
Center for global Sea Level Change, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Marketing and Psychology, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
Center for European Studies, Faculty of Law, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași, Romania
Social and Organizational Psychology, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain
Psychology/ Research Unit Human Resources Development, Setif 2 University, Sétif, Algeria
The School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
Psychology Department, College of Education, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman
Department of Psychology, Universitas Indonesia, Kota Depok, Indonesia
Department of Psychology, National Chung-Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan
Department of Psychology, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Department of Social Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Division of Social Science, Yale-NUS College, Singapore, Singapore
Department of Psychology, HCMC University of Education, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
Independent researcher, Kazakhstan
Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
Department of Psychology, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
Department of Psychiatry, Udayana University, Kuta Selatan, Indonesia
School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Department of Psychology, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Department of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Mass Communication, Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, Sokoto, Nigeria
Department of Psychology, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL, United States
Department of Psychology, University of Cordoba, Córdoba, Spain
Department of Psychology, University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan
Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Rasht Branch, Rasht, Iran
Department of Management and Organisation, National University of Singapore Business School, Singapore, Singapore
Department of Political Science and Administration, National Distance Education University (UNED), Madrid, Spain
Department of Psychology, HSE University, Moscow, Russian Federation
Graduate School of Management, NUCB Business School, Nagoya, Japan
School of Law, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy
Research Institute Social Cohesion, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence, Department of Social Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Department of Educational, Humanities and Intercultural Communication, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
Psychology, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
School of Liberal Arts, M. Narikbayev KAZGUU University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
Department of Psychology, New York University Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Department of Psychology, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Department of Public Health, California State University, San Francisco, CA, United States
Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Institute of Governance and Global Affairs, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
Department of Methodology & Statistics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
Sustainable Society, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale et Cognitive, Université Clermont-Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Department of Applied Psychology, Lingnan University, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong
Ageing Epidemiology Research Unit, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (IKG), Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
Department of Psychology, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Psychology Department, Faculty of Arts, Menoufia University, Shebin El-Kom, Egypt

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Center for global Sea Level Change
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Center for European Studies
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School of Psychology
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Mass Communication
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Faculty of Economics and Business
School of Liberal Arts
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Department of Methodology & Statistics
Sustainable Society
Department of Psychology
Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale et Cognitive
Department of Applied Psychology
Ageing Epidemiology Research Unit
Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (IKG)
Department of Psychology
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