TY - JOUR
T1 - Family still matters
T2 - Human social motivation across 42 countries during a global pandemic
AU - Pick, Cari M.
AU - Ko, Ahra
AU - Wormley, Alexandra S.
AU - Wiezel, Adi
AU - Kenrick, Douglas T.
AU - Al-Shawaf, Laith
AU - Barry, Oumar
AU - Bereby-Meyer, Yoella
AU - Boonyasiriwat, Watcharaporn
AU - Brandstätter, Eduard
AU - Crispim, Ana Carla
AU - Cruz, Julio Eduardo
AU - David, Daniel
AU - David, Oana A.
AU - Defelipe, Renata Pereira
AU - Elmas, Pinar
AU - Espinosa, Agustín
AU - Fernandez, Ana Maria
AU - Fetvadjiev, Velichko H.
AU - Fetvadjieva, Stefka
AU - Fischer, Ronald
AU - Galdi, Silvia
AU - Galindo-Caballero, Oscar Javier
AU - Golovina, Galina M.
AU - Gomez-Jacinto, Luis
AU - Graf, Sylvie
AU - Grossmann, Igor
AU - Gul, Pelin
AU - Halama, Peter
AU - Hamamura, Takeshi
AU - Hansson, Lina S.
AU - Hitokoto, Hidefumi
AU - Hřebíčková, Martina
AU - Ilic, Darinka
AU - Johnson, Jennifer Lee
AU - Kara-Yakoubian, Mane
AU - Karl, Johannes A.
AU - Kohút, Michal
AU - Lasselin, Julie
AU - Li, Norman P.
AU - Mafra, Anthonieta Looman
AU - Malanchuk, Oksana
AU - Moran, Simone
AU - Murata, Asuka
AU - Ndiaye, Serigne Abdou Lahat
AU - O, Jiaqing
AU - Onyishi, Ike E.
AU - Pasay-an, Eddieson
AU - Rizwan, Muhammed
AU - Roth, Eric
AU - Salgado, Sergio
AU - Samoylenko, Elena S.
AU - Savchenko, Tatyana N.
AU - Sevincer, A. Timur
AU - Skoog, Eric
AU - Stanciu, Adrian
AU - Suh, Eunkook M.
AU - Sznycer, Daniel
AU - Talhelm, Thomas
AU - Ugwu, Fabian O.
AU - Uskul, Ayse K.
AU - Uz, Irem
AU - Valentova, Jaroslava Varella
AU - Varella, Marco Antonio Correa
AU - Zambrano, Danilo
AU - Varnum, Michael E.W.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2022/11/1
Y1 - 2022/11/1
N2 - The COVID-19 pandemic caused drastic social changes for many people, including separation from friends and coworkers, enforced close contact with family, and reductions in mobility. Here we assess the extent to which people's evolutionarily-relevant basic motivations and goals—fundamental social motives such as Affiliation and Kin Care—might have been affected. To address this question, we gathered data on fundamental social motives in 42 countries (N = 15,915) across two waves, including 19 countries (N = 10,907) for which data were gathered both before and during the pandemic (pre-pandemic wave: 32 countries, N = 8998; 3302 male, 5585 female; Mage = 24.43, SD = 7.91; mid-pandemic wave: 29 countries, N = 6917; 2249 male, 4218 female; Mage = 28.59, SD = 11.31). Samples include data collected online (e.g., Prolific, MTurk), at universities, and via community sampling. We found that Disease Avoidance motivation was substantially higher during the pandemic, and that most of the other fundamental social motives showed small, yet significant, differences across waves. Most sensibly, concern with caring for one's children was higher during the pandemic, and concerns with Mate Seeking and Status were lower. Earlier findings showing the prioritization of family motives over mating motives (and even over Disease Avoidance motives) were replicated during the pandemic. Finally, well-being remained positively associated with family-related motives and negatively associated with mating motives during the pandemic, as in the pre-pandemic samples. Our results provide further evidence for the robust primacy of family-related motivations even during this unique disruption of social life.
AB - The COVID-19 pandemic caused drastic social changes for many people, including separation from friends and coworkers, enforced close contact with family, and reductions in mobility. Here we assess the extent to which people's evolutionarily-relevant basic motivations and goals—fundamental social motives such as Affiliation and Kin Care—might have been affected. To address this question, we gathered data on fundamental social motives in 42 countries (N = 15,915) across two waves, including 19 countries (N = 10,907) for which data were gathered both before and during the pandemic (pre-pandemic wave: 32 countries, N = 8998; 3302 male, 5585 female; Mage = 24.43, SD = 7.91; mid-pandemic wave: 29 countries, N = 6917; 2249 male, 4218 female; Mage = 28.59, SD = 11.31). Samples include data collected online (e.g., Prolific, MTurk), at universities, and via community sampling. We found that Disease Avoidance motivation was substantially higher during the pandemic, and that most of the other fundamental social motives showed small, yet significant, differences across waves. Most sensibly, concern with caring for one's children was higher during the pandemic, and concerns with Mate Seeking and Status were lower. Earlier findings showing the prioritization of family motives over mating motives (and even over Disease Avoidance motives) were replicated during the pandemic. Finally, well-being remained positively associated with family-related motives and negatively associated with mating motives during the pandemic, as in the pre-pandemic samples. Our results provide further evidence for the robust primacy of family-related motivations even during this unique disruption of social life.
KW - COVID-19
KW - Cross-cultural research
KW - Family
KW - Fundamental social motives
KW - Life satisfaction
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85139346902&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2022.09.003
DO - 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2022.09.003
M3 - Article
C2 - 36217369
AN - SCOPUS:85139346902
SN - 1090-5138
VL - 43
SP - 527
EP - 535
JO - Evolution and Human Behavior
JF - Evolution and Human Behavior
IS - 6
ER -