Monday, August 09, 2021

The burden of the COVID-19 pandemic may contribute to outbreaks of violent protest and antigovernment sentiment


https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/924730

 

News Release 9-Aug-2021
Peer-Reviewed Publication
Association for Psychological Science

 

The COVID-19 pandemic is the most severe global health crisis of the 21st century. While media reports and policy directives tend to focus on the health and economic aspects of the pandemic, new research suggests that the pandemic is also destabilizing the fundamental relationship between citizens and the state.

“The pandemic has disrupted our normal way of living, generating frustrations, unprecedented social exclusion, and a range of other concerns,” said Henrikas Bartusevičius, a researcher with the Peace Research Institute Oslo and coauthor on a paper published in the journal Psychological Science. “Our investigations show that the psychological toll of living through a pandemic also stoked antigovernment and antisystemic attitudes that led to political violence in a number of countries.”


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