Partisanship, health behavior, and policy attitudes in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic

To study the U.S. public's health behaviors, attitudes, and policy opinions about COVID-19 in the earliest weeks of the national health crisis (March 20-23, 2020). We designed and fielded an original representative survey of 3,000 American adults between March 20-23, 2020 to collect data on a b...

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Vydané v:	PloS one Ročník 16; číslo 4; s. e0249596
Hlavní autori:	Gadarian, Shana Kushner, Goodman, Sara Wallace, Pepinsky, Thomas B.
Médium:	Journal Article
Jazyk:	English
Vydavateľské údaje:	United States Public Library of Science 07.04.2021 Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Predmet:	Adult Attitudes Biology and Life Sciences Colleges & universities Concept formation Consent Coronaviruses COVID-19 COVID-19 - epidemiology COVID-19 - prevention & control Disease control Editing Epidemics Federal government Female Health aspects Health Behavior Humans Male Medicine and Health Sciences Methodology Pandemics Pandemics - prevention & control Partisanship Party affiliation Polarization Policy Political aspects Political leadership Political parties Political science Politics Polls & surveys Presidents Public Health Public opinion Public opinion research Public policy Reviews SARS-CoV-2 Social aspects Social distancing Social Sciences United States United States - epidemiology Viral diseases United States United States > US California
ISSN:	1932-6203, 1932-6203
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Shrnutí:	To study the U.S. public's health behaviors, attitudes, and policy opinions about COVID-19 in the earliest weeks of the national health crisis (March 20-23, 2020). We designed and fielded an original representative survey of 3,000 American adults between March 20-23, 2020 to collect data on a battery of 38 health-related behaviors, government policy preferences on COVID-19 response and worries about the pandemic. We test for partisan differences COVID-19 related policy attitudes and behaviors, measured in three different ways: party affiliation, intended 2020 Presidential vote, and self-placed ideological positioning. Our multivariate approach adjusts for a wide range of individual demographic and geographic characteristics that might confound the relationship between partisanship and health behaviors, attitudes, and preferences. We find that partisanship-measured as party identification, support for President Trump, or left-right ideological positioning-explains differences in Americans across a wide range of health behaviors and policy preferences. We find no consistent evidence that controlling for individual news consumption, the local policy environment, and local pandemic-related deaths erases the observed partisan differences in health behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes. In further analyses, we use a LASSO regression approach to select predictors, and find that a partisanship indicator is the most commonly selected predictor across the 38 dependent variables that we study. Our analysis of individual self-reported behavior, attitudes, and policy preferences in response to COVID-19 reveals that partisanship played a central role in shaping individual responses in the earliest months of the COVID-19 pandemic. These results indicate that partisan differences in responding to a national public health emergency were entrenched from the earliest days of the pandemic.
Bibliografia:	ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 14 ObjectType-Article-2 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 23 Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
ISSN:	1932-6203 1932-6203
DOI:	10.1371/journal.pone.0249596