The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented situations (government lockdowns, quarantines, etc.) and stressors (a seemingly “phantom” virus that can be lurking anywhere) causing uncertainty for the future, uncontrollable and unpredictable situations. It appears that especially during times of uncertainty and high stress, conspiracy theories flourish and these can affect the way individuals behave, especially in response to governmental recommendations for social isolation and quarantine. Psychological flexibility, we hypothesized, may act as a protective factor in the relation between COVID-19 distress, conspiracy theory beliefs and consequent behaving. In this respect, the aim of this paper was to examine how conspiracy theory beliefs, COVID-19 distress, adherence behavior, and psychological flexibility interact. Participants were 1001 individuals (802 women; Mage = 35.59years, SD = 10.07), who completed an online survey approximately one month after the first governmental measures of self-isolation and quarantine were enforced. Psychological flexibility was found to mediate the relation between conspiracy theory beliefs and compliance behavior. Further, being highly stressed appeared to increase the probability that a person will believe conspiracy theories, while such beliefs influenced whether a person would follow public health recommendations. Psychological flexibility appeared to be a protective factor at low and moderate distress levels. However, at high levels of COVID-19 distress, individuals prone to conspiracy theory beliefs would be less likely to conform to governmental public health recommendations irrespective of their psychological flexibility levels.

COVID-19 大流行带来了前所未有的情况（政府封锁、隔离等）和压力源（一种可能潜伏在任何地方的看似“幽灵”病毒），给未来带来了不确定性、无法控制和不可预测的情况。看来，尤其是在不确定和高压力时期，阴谋论盛行，这会影响个人的行为方式，尤其是在响应政府关于社会隔离和隔离的建议时。我们假设，心理灵活性可能是 COVID-19 困扰、阴谋论信念和随之而来的行为之间关系的保护因素。在这方面，本文的目的是研究阴谋论信念、COVID-19 困扰、依从行为和心理灵活性如何相互作用。参与者是 1001 人（802 名女性；法师 = 35.59 岁，SD = 10.07），他们在第一次政府自我隔离和隔离措施实施后大约一个月完成了在线调查。发现心理灵活性可以调节阴谋论信念与合规行为之间的关系。此外，高度压力似乎会增加一个人相信阴谋论的可能性，而这种信念会影响一个人是否会遵循公共卫生建议。心理灵活性似乎是低和中等压力水平的保护因素。然而，在高水平的 COVID-19 困扰下，