Majority world successes and European and American failure to contain Covid‐19

Cultural collectivism and global leadership

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21698018
AutoresJames H Liu (0000-0001-9520-5727, School of Psychology Massey University Auckland New Zealand, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen24
Número1
Páginas23-29
Fecha de publicación2021-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAsian Journal Of Social Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1367-2223 • E-ISSN: 1467-839X
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/ajsp.12461
PMID33821138
OpenAlexW3129112317
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas23
Referencias citadas27

United Nations and World Health Organization data show a positive correlation, r = .53, p N = 189, between COVID‐19 infection rates and the human development index (HDI). Less wealthy, less educated countries with lower life spans were also more successful in maintaining lower fatality rates, r = .46, p N = 189 whereas 9 of the top‐10 countries in the world in per capita fatalities due to COVID‐19 were Western societies high in HDI. Similar positive correlations were found between COVID‐19 infection and fatality rates and a smaller sample of 76 countries measured on Schwartz intellectual autonomy (or individualism), and negative correlations of similar magnitude were found for embeddedness (or collectivism). East Asia was a global leader in preventing the spread of COVID‐19 because of a vigilant public concerned for public safety and compliant with public safety measures. African Union leaders coordinated their responses, and bought into a continent‐wide African Medical Supplies Platform that prevented panicked competition for scare supplies. Western global media and scholars have not paid attention to the successes of East Asia, Africa, and the South Pacific in fighting the pandemic. It is worth asking why this should be the case; understand the weaknesses of extreme individualism in fighting a pandemic requiring coordinated and unified public response, and consider the lessons for global scholars from the pandemic for doing research in the future

Autonomy · Collectivism · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · European union · Individualism · International trade · Pandemic · Per capita · Political science · Population · Public health · Sociology · COVID-19 and Mental Health · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts · Cultural Differences and Values · Demography · Law · Medicine