The novel Coronavirus that spread around the world in early 2020 triggered a global pandemic and economic downturn that affected nearly everyone. Yet the crisis had a disproportionate impact on the poor and revealed how easily working-class individuals' financial security can be destabilised by factors beyond personal control. In a pre-registered longitudinal study of Americans (N = 233) spanning April 2019 to May 2020, we tested whether the pandemic altered beliefs about the extent to which poverty is caused by external forces and internal dispositions and support for economic inequality. Over this timespan, participants revealed a shift in their attributions for poverty, reporting that poverty is more strongly impacted by external-situational causes and less by internal-dispositional causes. However, we did not detect an overall mean-level change in opposition to inequality or support for government intervention. Instead, only for those who most strongly recognized the negative impact of COVID-19 did changes in poverty attributions translate to decreased support for inequality, and increased support for government intervention to help the poor.

2020年初在全球传播的新型冠状病毒引发了全球大流行和经济下滑，几乎影响了所有人。然而，这场危机对穷人造成了不成比例的影响，并揭示了工人阶级个人的财务安全如何容易受到个人无法控制的因素的破坏。在美国人预先登记的纵向研究（Ñ （233）=======================================================================================================为代表这是一本关于233（2019年4月至2020年5月）的数据，我们测试了大流行病是否改变了人们对由外部力量和内部倾向以及对经济不平等的支持造成的贫困程度的看法。在这段时间里，与会人员揭示了他们对贫困的归因发生了变化，报告说，贫困受外部情境因素的影响更大，而受内部性格因素的影响较小。但是，我们没有发现反对不平等或支持政府干预的总体平均水平变化。相反，只有那些最强烈地意识到COVID-19的负面影响的人，贫困属性的变化才能转化为减少对不平等的支持，并增加对政府干预以帮助穷人的支持。