During the current COVID-19 pandemic, religious gatherings have become intense hot spots for the spread of the virus. In this research, we focus on the religiosity of communities to examine whether religiosity helps or hinders adherence to mitigation policies such as shelter-in-place directives. Prior research has made opposing predictions as to the influence of religiosity. One stream predicts greater adherence because of rule-abiding norms and altruistic tendencies, whereas another has predicted lower adherence as a reaction against the restriction of personal and religious freedom. We used shelter-in-place directives as an intervention in a quasiexperiment to examine adherence over 30 days as a function of religiosity in the most populous metropolitan areas in the United States. When a shelter-in-place directive had not been imposed, religiosity did not affect people's movements. However, when the directive was imposed, higher religiosity resulted in less adherence to shelter-in-place directives. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

中文翻译：

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宗教和对 COVID-19 缓解指南的反应。

在当前的 COVID-19 大流行期间，宗教集会已成为病毒传播的热点。在这项研究中，我们专注于社区的宗教信仰，以检查宗教信仰是否有助于或阻碍遵守缓解政策，例如就地庇护所指令。先前的研究对宗教信仰的影响做出了相反的预测。一个流派预测由于遵守规则的规范和利他主义倾向而使遵守率更高，而另一种则预测遵守率降低是对限制个人和宗教自由的反应。我们使用就地避难指令作为准实验的干预措施，以检查超过 30 天的依从性作为美国人口最多的大都市区的宗教信仰的函数。当没有实施就地避难指令时，宗教信仰并没有影响人们的活动。然而，当指令被强制执行时，更高的宗教信仰导致对就地庇护所指令的遵守程度降低。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2020 APA，保留所有权利）。