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SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
卷 310, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115275
关键词
Vaccine refusal; Vaccine hesitancy; Implicit attitudes; Vaccine beliefs; Decision-making
Parental refusal of vaccines contributes to disease outbreaks. This study examines the role of cognitive associations in vaccine-related beliefs and behaviors among parents. Findings suggest that vaccine associations, particularly those related to helpfulness/harmfulness, play a role in parental vaccine beliefs and behaviors.
Objective: A movement of parents refusing vaccines for their children has contributed to increasingly large outbreaks of diseases that are preventable by vaccines. Research has identified multiple factors that relate to parents' vaccination behaviors (i.e., whether not they vaccinate their children), including their beliefs about vaccines' safety and utility and their trust in those who recommend vaccines. Here we examine the role of more fundamental psychological processes that may contribute to multiple vaccine-related beliefs and behaviors: cognitive associations.Methods: Using a large sample of U.S. parents (pre-COVID-19), we investigated parents' associations between vaccines and helpfulness/harmfulness, as well as between the self and vaccines (vaccine identity), and their relation to parents' beliefs about vaccine safety and utility, trust in authorities' vaccine recommendations, and prior vaccination refusal for their children. To capture a more complete understanding of people's associations, we examined both explicit associations (measured via self-report) and implicit associations (measured by the Implicit Association Test). Results: Both implicit and explicit associations correlated with beliefs, trust, and vaccination refusal.Results from structural equation models indicated that explicit vaccine-identity and vaccine-helpfulness associations and implicit vaccine helpfulness associations were indirectly related to vaccination refusal via their relation with vaccine beliefs. Conclusions: Collectively, study findings suggest that vaccine associations-especially those related to helpful-ness/harmfulness-may serve as psychological building blocks for parental vaccine beliefs and behaviors.
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