Values in Crisis Austria (SUF edition)

Full edition for scientific use. The COVID-19 pandemic offers unique opportunity - a natural experiment indeed - to study how people’s moral values change during times of crises. In the face of lacking evidence, we cannot take it for granted that the stability of values observed in normal times continues throughout the Corona crisis. This dataset represents the Austrian data of the first wave of a longitudinal study which is conducted in several countries all over the world. A second wave is planned in 2021, a third wave about one year after the crisis. Under the current contact restrictions, using an online panel is the only option to achieve potentially representative data of the Austrian population. The study investigates basic values (measured with classical value concepts such as the Inglehart Index and the short Portraits Values Questionnaire (by Shalom Schwartz) which is also implemented in the European Social Survey). Additional item batteries refer to concepts which are grounded in personality research (e.g. Big Five and Empathy), exposure to the crisis and perceptions of economic consequences. In the Austrian dataset several items of the Social Survey Austria about social, political and environmental attitudes are repeated as well and new concepts about visions of the future after COVID-19 are included as well. The main aim of the study is to figure out how respondents’ perception of the crisis transforms and how these value changes are linked to moral values and social and political attitudes.

本版本为科研专用完整版。新冠疫情（COVID-19 pandemic）为研究危机时期人类道德价值观的变迁提供了独一无二的契机——堪称一场天然实验。鉴于现有证据尚且不足，我们不能想当然地认为，常态下观测到的价值观稳定性会在新冠疫情期间延续。本数据集涵盖了一项在全球多国开展的纵向研究（longitudinal study）第一波次的奥地利样本数据。研究计划于2021年开展第二波次数据收集，第三波次则计划在疫情爆发约一年后进行。在当前社交隔离限制措施下，采用在线调研面板（online panel）是获取具有潜在代表性奥地利民众数据的唯一可行方案。本研究聚焦基础价值观的测查，采用经典价值观理论框架，包括英格尔哈特价值观量表（Inglehart Index）以及肖洛姆·施瓦茨开发的简化版肖像价值观问卷（short Portraits Values Questionnaire，该问卷亦应用于欧洲社会调查（European Social Survey））。其余附加题组则围绕一系列基于人格研究的概念展开，例如大五人格（Big Five）与共情能力（Empathy）、个体受疫情影响的程度以及对疫情经济后果的认知。在奥地利数据集里，研究重复了奥地利社会调查（Social Survey Austria）中有关社会、政治与环境态度的若干题目，并新增了关于新冠疫情后未来愿景的相关题项。本研究的核心目标在于探明受访者对疫情的认知如何演变，以及这些价值观变迁与道德价值观、社会及政治态度之间的关联机制。