Religiosity and cooperation : the COVID-19 pandemic in Slovenia

Smrke, Marjan (author), Vovk, Tina (author)

We researched the COVID-19 pandemic as a give-some social dilemma. The success of solving the dilemma depends on an adequate proportion of cooperative actors. We were interested in the difference between how religious and non-religious Slovenian citizens reported their level of cooperation with government measures aimed at limiting the spread of the virus during the pandemic. Our research shows that during the first wave of the epidemic in Slovenia, religious citizens were slightly more cooperative than non-religious citizens. However, this statistically significant difference was not the consequence of religiosity per se. Regression analysis suggests that the observable difference was due to factors such as age, gender, concern about health, and trust in the ruling government. We explain the effect of these factors in light of the existing corpus of knowledge about social dilemmas.

• Language: English
• Keywords: social dilemmas, COVID-19 pandemic, cooperation, religion, COVID-19, epidemics, citizens, religiousness, Slovenia
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: 14 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 12, iss. 12, art. 1076
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-136691
• UDC: 316.62:616-036.22(497.4)
• ISSN on article: 2077-1444
• DOI: 10.3390/rel12121076
• COBISS.SI-ID: 88208899
• Publication date in RUL: 16.05.2022

SMRKE, Marjan and VOVK, Tina, 2021, Religiosity and cooperation : the COVID-19 pandemic in Slovenia. Religions [online]. 2021. Vol. 12, no. 12,  1076. [Accessed 16 June 2025]. DOI 10.3390/rel12121076. Retrieved from: https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/IzpisGradiva.php?lang=eng&id=136691

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Religions
• Shortened title: Religions
• Publisher: MDPI AG
• ISSN: 2077-1444
• COBISS.SI-ID: 520261657

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 05.12.2021

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: COVID-19, epidemije, državljani, sodelovanje, vernost, Slovenija