Факторы ковид-скептицизма в России: результаты анализа материалов двух волн лонгитюдного опроса «Ценности в кризисе»

Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены. 2023. № 5. С. 115–137.

Афанасьева Ю. А., Sokolov B., Shirokanova A.

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 conservation. 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.

Keywords: conspiracy theories, institutional trust, COVID-19, теории заговора, ковид-скептицизм, Schwartz’s basic values, базовые ценности Шварца, COVID-19, институциональное доверие, COVID-19 skepticism, science skepticism, скептицизм в отношении науки

Publication based on the results of: Value Polarization and Its Societal Consequences in a Comparative Perspective (2023)