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  • Social Psychology
  • Political Science
  • Public Health

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  • Political polarization can influence public health behaviors.
  • Understanding individual-community identity alignment is crucial for effective health interventions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine if partisan identity misalignment predicts psychological and behavioral distancing from COVID-19 norms.
  • To assess the role of better-than-average estimates in perceived adherence to non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs).

Main Methods:

  • Longitudinal data collected from a nationally representative sample of Republicans and Democrats in April and June 2020.
  • Analysis of self-reported adherence, approval, and behavior regarding NPIs (e.g., mask wearing).
  • Examination of injunctive and descriptive norms in relation to individual and community partisan identity.

Main Results:

  • Democrats in Republican communities showed heightened "better-than-average" estimates of NPI adherence and approval, underestimating community norms.
  • Republicans in Democratic communities did not exhibit "worse-than-average" estimates.
  • Injunctive norms predicted NPI behavior only when individual and community partisan identities were aligned.

Conclusions:

  • Partisan identity alignment is critical for injunctive norms to influence NPI behavior.
  • Normative public health messages may have limited effectiveness in politically polarized contexts.
  • Individual approval and behavior regarding NPIs remained strongly associated regardless of identity alignment.