在COVID-19大流行期间,荣誉认可和增加枪支购买行为和意图
Jarrod E Bock1, Samantha E Daruwala2, Raymond P Tucker3
1Department of Psychology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA.
Psychological reports
|May 27, 2024
概括
男人的荣誉规范强烈预测枪支所有权和购买,甚至超过了对安全或COVID-19大流行的担忧. 这突显了男性购买枪支的一个关键因素.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 犯罪学 犯罪学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
背景情况:
- 在COVID-19大流行期间,枪支销售额增加,引发了人们对暴力,家庭虐待和自杀的担忧.
- 为了自我保护而拥有枪支与感知到的危险和遵守男性荣誉规范有关,特别是在美国南部和西部的文化中.
- 男人的荣誉规范强调声誉,强,不容忍不尊重.
研究的目的:
- 检查威胁感知和男性荣誉认可对枪支所有权和购买行为的影响.
- 为了确定男性荣誉规范的相对预测力,与危险的世界信仰和COVID-19担忧等其他因素相比.
- 调查非COVID-19枪支所有权背后的动机,与流行病相关的购买以及未来的购买意图.
主要方法:
- 在COVID-19流行病的第一年,共进行了三项在线调查,共计2,483人,其中大多数是美国白人男性.
- 参与者完成了评估他们对男性荣誉规范的认可,威胁感知 (例如,危险的世界信仰,不容忍不确定性) 和枪支购买行为的措施.
- 使用统计分析来比较基于枪支所有权状况,流行病购买行为和未来购买意图的群体.
主要成果:
- 在保护性枪支所有者,在COVID-19期间购买枪支的人,以及打算购买枪支的人中,男性荣誉认可显著更高.
- 男人的荣誉认可始终成为枪支所有权和购买行为最强的预测因素,超过了COVID-19担忧和危险的世界信仰等因素.
- 这些发现适用于不同样本和与枪支相关行为的测量.
结论:
- 认可男性荣誉规范是保护性枪支所有权和购买的强大动机,独立于一般安全问题或流行病特定焦虑.
- 这项研究强调了与荣誉和男子气概相关的文化规范在推动美国购买枪支方面的重要作用.
- 了解这些动机对于解决与枪支可用性相关的人际暴力和自杀率具有关键意义.
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