Verena Aignesberger, Tobias Greitemeyer

Evaluating the Covid‐19 pandemic: The role of moral disengagement

  • Social Psychology
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AbstractThe COVID‐19 pandemic affected daily life worldwide. We examined how individuals perceived these changes. We expected the propensity to morally disengage (MD) to predict a less negative view of the pandemic via lower perspective‐taking and compassion. As predicted, the results of a cross‐sectional study (N = 717) show that alongside dispositional optimism, MD was associated with perceiving the pandemic in a less negative manner. Unexpectedly, the proposed mediating effects were not found. Exploratory results showed that MD predicted existential security directly and quality of life indirectly via lower compassion. Altogether, MD may provide some benefits in terms of pandemic perceptions.

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