COVID-19 and seasonal flu vaccination hesitancy: Links to personality and general intelligence in a large, UK cohort

Halstead, Isaac; McKay, Ryan; Lewis, Gary J.

doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.05.062

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“…Only extraversion was found to be a significant predictor. This is concordant with a finding by Halstead et al [29] who also found extraversion as a predictor of vaccine hesitancy. However, the bivariate correlation showed a positive association between conscientiousness and anti-vaccine attitudes.…”

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Hesitancy towards COVID-19 vaccination: The role of personality traits, anti-vaccine attitudes and illness perception

Nanteer-Oteng

Kretchy

Nanteer

et al. 2022

PLOS Glob Public Health

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There is an increased need for COVID-19 vaccination since the world is gradually returning to normal. Current evidence supports vaccination activity more towards viral suppression than COVID-19 prevention. This has led to divergent views regarding vaccination which may influence anti-vaccine attitudes and vaccine hesitancy. The study examined the role of personality traits, anti-vaccine attitudes and illness perceptions on vaccine hesitancy. The study was a cross-sectional survey using snowball and convenience sampling to recruit 492 participants via social media platforms. Multivariate analysis of variance and regression analysis were used to test the hypotheses. The study found that some facets of illness perception (identity, concern, emotional representation and treatment control), extraversion, experience with COVID-19 and anti-vaccine attitudes (mistrust, profiteering, worries about unforeseen effects of vaccine) predicted vaccine hesitancy. The outcomes from this study have implications for achieving public health goals and developing strategies for reaching optimal vaccination targets and attaining herd immunity. Health-promoting programs need to be intensified and could include psychosocial perspectives on vaccine hesitancy so that specific target groups can be reached to be vaccinated.

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confidence: 92%

Hesitancy towards COVID-19 vaccination: The role of personality traits, anti-vaccine attitudes and illness perception

Nanteer-Oteng

Kretchy

Nanteer

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PLOS Glob Public Health

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“…The insufficient and uneven vaccination coverage has been anticipated by researchers due to a long-standing knowledge of vaccine hesitancy, a concern that existed before the COVID-19 pandemic as evidenced by influenza vaccine hesitancy [11] , [19] , [42] . By the World Health Organization (WHO), vaccine hesitancy is the “delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccination despite the availability of vaccination services”, and is widely considered the main barrier to achieving full vaccination coverage [30] .…”

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COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy cannot fully explain disparities in vaccination coverage across the contiguous United States

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“…The largest percentage of respondents, more than two-thirds of Americans, believe in the health benefits of vaccination, while about one-tenth of respondents are concerned about its safety (Lin and Wang, 2020). The results obtained in the study by Halstead et al (2020), indicate that in five personality types, there are large differences in the perception of the importance of vaccination. For neuroticism they received different results, from completely positive to completely negative answers, while for some personality traits they did not get the expected results at all.…”

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COVID-19 certificate as a cutting-edge issue in changing the perception of restaurants’ visitors—Illustrations from Serbian urban centers

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As one of the first European cases of the introduction of COVID-19 certificates, the Serbian Government initiated the measure of limited working hours of restaurants for unvaccinated visitors. Due to such actions and frequent bans on working during the pandemic, many restaurants in Serbia had to lay off workers or close. At the end of October 2021, the certificate for entering restaurants and all catering facilities for all the visitors became mandatory. It is interesting to note that earlier findings suggested that some personality characteristics determine the specific behaviors during the pandemic, but there is still a small number of results related to restaurants’ visitors. This study aimed to investigate the predictive strength of the Big Five Factors (BFF) to attitudes toward visits to restaurants in Serbia during the pandemic, depending on the attitudes toward accepting COVID-19 certificates. A survey was conducted on a total sample of 953 visitors of restaurants in three major cities in Serbia. The results of hierarchical regression analysis showed that Openness and Extraversion positively predict attitudes toward visits to facilities during a pandemic, while Conscientiousness and Neuroticism were negative predictors. However, in the second step of hierarchical regression analysis, attitudes toward a COVID-19 certificate as a mediator variable significantly reduced the negative effect of Neuroticism on the attitudes toward visits. It seems that, by obtaining the certificate, the fear of unsafe stays in restaurants can be reduced, and that making decisions about (no) visiting restaurants during the pandemic does not necessarily have to be compromised by emotional lability.

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COVID-19 and seasonal flu vaccination hesitancy: Links to personality and general intelligence in a large, UK cohort

Cited by 27 publications

References 45 publications

Hesitancy towards COVID-19 vaccination: The role of personality traits, anti-vaccine attitudes and illness perception

Hesitancy towards COVID-19 vaccination: The role of personality traits, anti-vaccine attitudes and illness perception

COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy cannot fully explain disparities in vaccination coverage across the contiguous United States

COVID-19 certificate as a cutting-edge issue in changing the perception of restaurants’ visitors—Illustrations from Serbian urban centers

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