How to solve sandwich generation's conundrum on vaccination decisions for self, children, and parents? An empirical analysis by integrating social cognitive and social influence perspectives.
Yan Li, Chenguang Tao, Bojiao Mu, Wei Liu, Long Zhang
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Abstract
Vaccination against highly infectious diseases constitutes a major decision for the sandwich generation. However, a comprehensive understanding of the development of this critical decision is lacking. Toward this end, this study aims to investigate how two contrasting types of social influence, that is, compliance and conformity, distinctively shape the sandwich generation's self-efficacy about vaccination for themselves, their children, and their parents. A moderated structural equation model was tested on the data collected from 590 voluntary subjects across China. The results reveal that the components of the sandwich generation's self-efficacy: perceived safety, effectiveness, and trust in vaccines inflict differential effects on their vaccination decisions for themselves, their children, and their parents. Moreover, under high compliance, the sandwich generation shows a higher intention to vaccinate themselves and their parents than their children. Conformity weakens the effects of the sandwich generation's self-efficacy on their vaccination decisions for the three targets.
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ournal of Health Psychology is an international peer-reviewed journal that aims to support and help shape research in health psychology from around the world. It provides a platform for traditional empirical analyses as well as more qualitative and/or critically oriented approaches. It also addresses the social contexts in which psychological and health processes are embedded. Studies published in this journal are required to obtain ethical approval from an Institutional Review Board. Such approval must include informed, signed consent by all research participants. Any manuscript not containing an explicit statement concerning ethical approval and informed consent will not be considered.