With the COVID-19 pandemic, behavioural scientists aimed to illuminate reasons why people comply with (or not) large-scale cooperative activities. Here we investigated the motives that underlie support for COVID-19 preventive behaviours in a sample of 12,758 individuals from 34 countries. We hypothesized that the associations of empathic prosocial concern and fear of disease with support towards preventive COVID-19 behaviours would be moderated by trust in the government. Results suggest that the association between fear of disease and support for COVID-19 preventive behaviours was strongest when trust in the government was weak (both at individual- and country-level). Conversely, the association with empathic prosocial concern was strongest when trust in the government was high, but this moderation was only found at individual-level scores of governmental trust. We discuss how motivations may be shaped by socio-cultural context, and outline how findings may contribute to a better understanding of collective action during global crises.

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Department of Educational Psychology and Health Psychology Pavol Jozef Šafárik University Košice Slovakia

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Department of Physical Education and Rehabilitation Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University Ternopil Ukraine

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Department of Psychology De La Salle University Manila Philippines

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Department of Public Health and Informatics Jahangirnagar University Dhaka Bangladesh

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Department of Sociology and Social Policy Lingnan University Hong Kong SAR China

Department of Youth and Family Utrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands

Dimitri Uznadze Institute of Psychology Ilia State University Tbilisi Georgia

Faculty for Psychology Fern Universität Hagen Germany

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Faculty of Education Beit Berl College Kfar Sava Israel

Faculty of Education Universidad de los Andes Santiago Chile

Faculty of Medicine Syrian Private University Damascus Syrian Arab Republic

Faculty of Psychology and Education University of Malaysia Sabah Sabah Malaysia

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Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences Department of Psychology Haigazian University Beirut Lebanon

Faculty of Social Science and Humanities Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu Sibiu Romania

Federal University of Bahia Salvador Brazil

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General Psychology Chair Yerevan State University Yerevan Armenia

Graduate Institute of Social Work National Chengchi University Taipei Taiwan

Health Promotion Research Center Zahedan University of Medical Sciences Zahedan Iran

Higher Medical School University St Kliment Ohridski Bitola North Macedonia

Hiroshima University Hiroshima Japan

Humanities Department Universidad Rafael Landívar Guatemala City Guatemala

Iberoamerican University Mexico City Mexico

Impact Managers Lusaka Zambia

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore Bangalore India

Indian Institute of Management Indore Indore India

Institute for Kinesiology Research Science and Research Centre Koper Koper Slovenia

Institute for Population and Human Studies Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Sofia Bulgaria

Institute for Social Science Studies Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang Selangor Malaysia

Institute of Psychology Czech Academy of Sciences Prague Czech Republic

Institute of Psychology Mykolas Romeris University Vilnius Lithuania

Institute of Psychology University of Gdansk Gdansk Poland

Interdisciplinary Research Team on Internet and Society Faculty of Social Studies Masaryk University Brno Czech Republic

Ipswich Hospital Ipswich UK

Istanbul Policy Center Sabanci University Istanbul Turkey

Kabul University of Medical Sciences Kabul Afghanistan

Karolinska Institutet Solna Sweden

Lviv State University of Physical Culture Lviv Ukraine

Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts Skopje North Macedonia

Medicine School Mother and Teacher Pontifical Catholic University Santiago Dominican Republic

Millennium Nucleus to Improve the Mental Health of Adolescents and Youths Imhay Santiago Chile

Mokhtass for Consultations and Research Doha Qatar

National Economics University Hanoi Vietnam

Núcleo Científico Tecnológico en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Universidad de La Frontera Temuco Chile

PHI Psihomedika Bitola North Macedonia

Polish Society for the Psychology of Religion University of Gdańsk Gdańsk Poland

Psychological Research Institute National University of Córdoba CONICET Córdoba Argentina

Psychology Department Fudan University Shanghai China

Psychology Department Universidad Francisco Marroquín Guatemala City Guatemala

Psychology Department University of Zambia Lusaka Zambia

REMIT Research on Economics Management and Information Technologies Universidade Portucalense Porto Portugal

School of Applied Psychology Griffith University Brisbane QLD Australia

School of Human Ecology Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai Maharashtra India

School of Liberal Arts M Narikbayev KAZGUU University Astana Kazakhstan

School of Management NUCB Business School Nagoya Japan

School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health Peking University Beijing China

School of Psychology Dublin City University Dublin Ireland

School of Psychology Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador Ambato Ecuador

School of Psychology Victoria University of Wellington Wellington New Zealand

Siglo 21 University Córdoba Argentina

Singapore Centre for Character and Citizenship Education National Institute of Education Nanyang Technological University Singapore Singapore

Social Psychology Department Doha Institute for Graduate Studies Doha Qatar

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South Kazakhstan Medical Academy Shymkent Kazakhstan

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Universidad César Vallejo Trujillo Peru

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Universidad del Valle de Guatemala Proyecto Aigle Guatemala Cdad de Guatemala Guatemala

Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa Ponta Grossa Parana Brazil

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University of Prishtina Hasan Prishtina Prishtina Kosovo

University of Zagreb Zagreb Croatia

University Sains Malaysia Penang Malaysia

Western Paraná State University Francisco Beltrão Brazil

Yeditepe University Istanbul Turkey

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