Do gender and educational level predict vaccination? The mediating role of attitudes towards vaccines and fear of COVID‐19

IF 4.8 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL
Begoña Espejo, Irene Checa
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Abstract Given that the relationship between educational level, gender, and the fact of getting vaccinated does not seem to be clear, the aim of this research has been to verify if the beliefs towards vaccines and the fear of COVID‐19 are mediating this relationship in a general Spanish sample of 761 participants. A logistic regression with latent variables was estimated using Mplus. The results showed that there is no direct effect of gender or educational level on vaccination but both, fear of COVID‐19 and attitudes towards vaccines, act as mediators. Specifically, people with university studies show higher scores in trust of vaccine benefits, which in turn is a good predictor of getting vaccinated or not. So that having university studies and confidence in vaccines better predict getting vaccinated. Furthermore, being a woman with high levels of fear of COVID‐19, as well as having up to higher education and showing high levels of fear of COVID‐19, better predict getting vaccinated. However, this is a non‐probabilistic sample, and similar studies should be carried out with a representative sample of the Spanish population and of another countries, in which the rate of people vaccinated against other viruses is declining. This study reports the importance of a model including mediating variables when analyzing the influence of sociodemographic variables on deciding to get vaccinated or not, because this kind of model allow the detection of specific groups with low probability of vaccination, which would allow the design of specific strategies.
性别和教育水平能预测疫苗接种吗?疫苗态度和COVID - 19恐惧的中介作用
鉴于受教育程度、性别和接种疫苗之间的关系似乎并不清楚,本研究的目的是验证对疫苗的信念和对COVID - 19的恐惧是否在西班牙761名参与者的一般样本中起到中介作用。使用Mplus估计具有潜在变量的逻辑回归。结果显示,性别或教育水平对疫苗接种没有直接影响,但对COVID - 19的恐惧和对疫苗的态度两者都起中介作用。具体来说,接受过大学研究的人对疫苗益处的信任度更高,这反过来又很好地预测了是否接种疫苗。因此,拥有大学学历和对疫苗的信心可以更好地预测是否接种疫苗。此外,作为一名对COVID - 19高度恐惧的女性,以及受过高等教育并对COVID - 19表现出高度恐惧的女性,可以更好地预测是否接种疫苗。然而,这是一个非概率样本,应该对西班牙人口和其他国家的代表性样本进行类似的研究,其中接种其他病毒疫苗的人的比例正在下降。本研究报告了包含中介变量的模型在分析社会人口变量对决定是否接种疫苗的影响时的重要性,因为这种模型允许检测接种疫苗概率较低的特定群体,从而允许设计特定策略。
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Social and Personality Psychology Compass
Social and Personality Psychology Compass Psychology-Social Psychology
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