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Socio-Cultural Values Are Risk Factors for COVID-19-Related Mortality

Author(s) -

Endress Ansgar D.

Publication year - 2022

Publication title -

cross-cultural research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.789

H-Index - 39

eISSN - 1552-3578

pISSN - 1069-3971

DOI - 10.1177/10693971211067050

Subject(s) - confounding , covid-19 , demography , world values survey , cultural values , population , mortality rate , excess mortality , materialism , medicine , environmental health , geography , psychology , social psychology , sociology , social science , disease , virology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , philosophy , epistemology

To assess whether socio-cultural values are population-level risk factors for health, I sought to predict COVID-19-related mortality between 2 weeks and 6 months after the first COVID-19-related death in a country based on values extracted from the World Values Survey for different country sets, after controlling for various confounding variables. COVID-19-related mortality was increased in countries endorsing political participation but decreased in countries with greater trust in institutions and materialistic orientations. The values were specific to COVID-19-related mortality, did not predict general health outcomes, and values predicting increased COVID-19-related mortality predicted decreased mortality from other outcomes (e.g., environmental-related mortality).

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