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Abstract
Objectives: This study integrates the Five-Factor Model (FFM) of personality traits with the Health Belief Model (HBM) to examine associations among personality traits, cues to action, and vaccination intentions.
Method: An online survey was conducted in April 2021, with 2,098 participants (mean age = 31.22 years, SD = 8.29) completing the study. The questionnaire assessed HBM constructs and the FFM personality traits. Spearman correlation coefficients were used to evaluate associations among ordinal variables, while Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) explored complex relationships between latent variables.
Results: The findings indicate that self-efficacy (β = 0.198) and perceived barriers (β = 0.515) exert the most significant direct positive influences on vaccination intentions. Cues to action, particularly recommendations from family members (β = 0.113) and doctors (β = 0.092), also significantly affect vaccination intentions. Notably, personality traits indirectly influence vaccination intentions through self-efficacy and perceived barriers. Furthermore, agreeableness most significantly affects family suggestions, while neuroticism strongly influences recommendations from authority figures and healthcare providers, with extraversion notably impacting suggestions from peers.
Conclusions: The study highlights the influence of personality traits on cues to action, with neuroticism linked to authority influence, extraversion to peer influence, and agreeableness to familial influence. These findings emphasize the importance of incorporating individual differences into public health policies and vaccination promotion strategies. Future research should further explore the effects of diverse personality traits and community-specific profiles on vaccination behaviors to enhance intervention effectiveness.
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Frontiers in Psychology is the largest journal in its field, publishing rigorously peer-reviewed research across the psychological sciences, from clinical research to cognitive science, from perception to consciousness, from imaging studies to human factors, and from animal cognition to social psychology. Field Chief Editor Axel Cleeremans at the Free University of Brussels is supported by an outstanding Editorial Board of international researchers. This multidisciplinary open-access journal is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating scientific knowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers, academics, clinicians and the public worldwide. The journal publishes the best research across the entire field of psychology. Today, psychological science is becoming increasingly important at all levels of society, from the treatment of clinical disorders to our basic understanding of how the mind works. It is highly interdisciplinary, borrowing questions from philosophy, methods from neuroscience and insights from clinical practice - all in the goal of furthering our grasp of human nature and society, as well as our ability to develop new intervention methods.
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