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What drives beliefs in COVID-19 conspiracy theories? The role of psychotic-like experiences and confinement-related factors

2021-01-29Master thesis Restricted access
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dc.contributor.advisorRocha, Nuno
dc.contributor.advisorCampos, Carlos
dc.contributor.authorFerreira, Simão Pedro Rodrigues
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-08T16:19:48Z
dc.date.available2022-01-29T01:30:23Z
dc.date.issued2021-01-29
dc.description.abstractThe COVID-19 pandemic is a worlwide threat to public health and the global economy. The climate of fear uncertainty associated with the pandemic has fostered the emergence of a wide-range of COVID-19 conspiracy theories that has the potential to shape public opinion and hinder the effective dissemination of valid information. Beliefs in conspiracy theories has been associated with maladaptive personality traits such as schizotypy and paranoia, as well as other non-psychotic psychological characteristics (e.g., social isolation, stress). The current study aimed to examine the association within the community, while also addressing the role of sociodemographic information, psychological outcomes (e.g., stress, affective states) and other pandemic-related factos (e.g., confinement conditions/behaviors). Our results suggest that psychotic-like experiences are associated with beliefs in COVID-19 conspiracy theories, particularly perceptual abnormalities and persecutory ideation. Moreover, increased health-related concerns and reduced education levels also seem to be liability factors for these conspiracy beliefs. These results add importante insights into how the adherence to illogical and erroneous disease-related arguments may be contingent to proneness to psychotic-like experiences. COVID-19 conspiracy theories are yet another major challenge that governments and and policy makers must contemplate when defining strategic directions to manage the current and future pandemics.pt_PT
dc.identifier.tid202661172pt_PT
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/17303
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.subjectCOVID-19pt_PT
dc.subjectPandemicpt_PT
dc.subjectConfinementpt_PT
dc.subjectConspiracy theoriespt_PT
dc.subjectPsychosispt_PT
dc.titleWhat drives beliefs in COVID-19 conspiracy theories? The role of psychotic-like experiences and confinement-related factorspt_PT
dc.typemaster thesis
dspace.entity.typePublication
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typemasterThesispt_PT
thesis.degree.nameTerapia Ocupacionalpt_PT

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