Trust in government moderates the association between fear of COVID-19 as well as empathic concern and preventive behaviour

• Main Authors: Arzu Karakulak, Beyza Tepe, Radosveta Dimitrova, Mohamed Abdelrahman, Plamen Akaliyski, Rana Alaseel, Yousuf Abdulqader Alkamali, Azzam Amin, Danny A. Lizarzaburu Aguinaga, Andrii Andres, John Jamir Benzon R. Aruta, Marios Assiotis, Hrant Avanesyan, Norzihan Ayub, Maria Bacikova-Sleskova, Raushan Baikanova, Batoul Bakkar, Sunčica Bartoluci, David Benitez, Ivanna Bodnar, Aidos Bolatov, Judyta Borchet, Ksenija Bosnar, Yunier Broche-Pérez, Carmen Buzea, Rosalinda Cassibba, Marta Martín Carbonell, Chen, Bin-Bin, Gordana Ristevska Dimitrov, Dương Công Doanh, Alejandra del Carmen Dominguez Espinosa, Wassim Gharz Edine, Nelli Ferenczi, Regina Fernández-Morales, Jorge Gaete, Yiqun Gan, Suely Giolo, Rubia Carla Formighieri Giordani, Maria-Therese Friehs, Shahar Gindi, Biljana Gjoneska, Juan Carlos Godoy, Maria del Pilar Grazioso, Camellia Hancheva, Given Hapunda, Shogo Hihara, Mohd Saiful Husain, Md Saiful Islam, Anna Janovská, Nino Javakhishvili, Veljko Jovanović, Russell Sarwar Kabir, Nor Ba’yah Abdul Kadir, Johannes Karl, Darko Katović, Zhumaly Kauyzbay, Tinka Delakorda Kawashima, Maria Kazmierczak, Richa Khanna, Meetu Khosla, Martina Klicperová-Baker, Ana Kozina, Steven Eric Krauss, Rodrigo Landabur, Katharina Lefringhausen, Aleksandra Lewandowska-Walter, Yun-Hsia Liang, Ana Makashvili, Sadia Malik, Denisse Manrique-Millones, Stefanos Mastrotheodoros, Breeda McGrath, Enkeleint A. Mechili, Marinés Mejía, Samson Mhizha, Justyna Michalek-Kwiecien, Diana Miconi, Fatema Mohsen, Rodrigo Moreta-Herrera, Camila Muhl, Maria Muradyan, Pasquale Musso, Andrej Naterer, Arash Nemat, Felix Neto, Joana Neto, Luz Marina Alonso Palacio, Hassan Okati-Aliabad, Carlos Iván Orellana, Ligia María Orellana, Sushanta Kumar Mishra, Joonha Park, Iuliia Pavlova, Eddy Peralta, Petro Petrytsa, Saša Pišot, Franjo Prot, José Rasia, Rita Rivera, Benedicta Prihatin Dwi Riyanti, Adil Samekin, Telman Seisembekov, Danielius Serapinas, Fabiola Silletti, Prerna Sharma, Shanu Shukla, Katarzyna Skrzypińska, Iva Poláčková Šolcová, Olga Solomontos-Kountouri, Adrian Stanciu, Delia Stefenel, Lorena Cecilia López Steinmetz, Maria Stogianni, Jaimee Stuart, Laura Francisca Sudarnoto, Kazumi Sugimura, Sadia Sultana, Angela Oktavia Suryani, Ergyul Tair, Lucy Tavitian-Elmadjan, Luciana Dutra Thome, Fitim Uka, Rasa Pilkauskaitė Valickienė, Brett Walter, Guilherme W. Wendt, Yang, Pei-Jung, Ebrar Yıldırım, Yue Yu, Maria Angela Mattar Yunes, Milene Zanoni da Silva, Maksim Rudnev
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Springer Nature Limited 2023
• Subjects: R5-920 Medicine (General); RC109-216 Infectious and parasitic diseases
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/39214/1/ABSTRACT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/39214/2/FULL%20TEXT%201.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/39214/; https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-023-00046-5
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sabah

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