新冠肺炎疫情下臺灣的族群集體自戀與陰謀論

Abstract

當2020上半年全球深陷「新型冠狀病毒」（COVID 19）疫情，我國在政府與民間的共同努力下應對相對得宜。而儘管防疫表現備受肯定，但是國內言論市場仍充斥在國外研究脈絡中源於國家防疫不利的「新冠肺炎陰謀論」（COVID conspiracy theory）。故本文採用量化方法檢視2020年5月在我國進行的線上問卷，欲探討在截然不同的疫情嚴重程度下我國民眾仍相信新冠肺炎陰謀論的原因。本文發現，族群集體自戀和新冠肺炎陰謀論信念有明顯的關聯，且台灣人認同以及新冠肺炎風險認知兩變項能有效說明族群集體自戀者的族群正面形象威脅來源，而台灣人認同則對族群集體自戀有明顯的調節作用。綜合以上，本文也針對相關研究發現給予未來研究進一步的延伸方向。

When countries around the world were suffering from COVID 19 pandemic during the first half of 2020, the Taiwanese government and the civil society had worked together to maintain a relatively normal pace of life. Although Taiwan’s coronavirus response was highly-regarded, Taiwan’s marketplace of ideas was still plagued by conspiracy theory which had been attributed to ill governmental response on the pandemic by foreign study. By using quantitative method to analyze an online survey collected during May 2020 in Taiwan, this study tries to figure out the reason why the Taiwanese public believed in COVID conspiracy theory under completely different pandemic severity. This study finds out that ethnic collective narcissism is highly associated with COVID conspiratorial belief. In the meantime, Taiwanese ethnic identity and COVID risk perception could manifest the image threat perception for those ethnical narcissists, while the Taiwanese ethnic identity has obvious moderation effect on the ethnic collective narcissism. To sum up, this study offers recommendation for future studies on relative issues.