Intellectual humility’s association with vaccine attitudes and intentions

Senger, Amy R.; Huynh, Ho Phi

doi:10.1080/13548506.2020.1778753

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“…Due to the ongoing pandemic, COVID-19 may provide a more salient threat to elicit stronger attitudes about vaccinations, especially with the conjecture surrounding its origin and the promise of a vaccine for it (Goodman & Carmichael, 2020). Moreover, whereas Senger and Huynh (2020) found that Openness to Revising One's Viewpoint was a main driver of this relationship, we found that Independence of Intellect and Ego largely drove the current study's associations (in addition to the Lack of Intellectual Overconfidence, which both studies had in common). This difference may be due to an evolution of vaccination attitudes.…”

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“…Recently, intellectual humility was studied within the contentious topic of vaccinations (Senger & Huynh, 2020). Using an online sample, the researchers found that intellectual humility negatively (but weakly) correlated with anti-vaccination attitudes.…”

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“…G*Power 3.1.9.2 (Faul et al, 2009) was used to estimate the necessary sample size under specified parameters. Considering previous research (Senger & Huynh, 2020), an effect r = .14 was estimated, alpha was set to be at .05 and power at .80. Under these parameters, 311 participants are necessary.…”

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“…Thus, research is needed to demonstrate intellectual humility's ability to predict anti-vaccination attitudes above and beyond other factors (e.g., demographics). Senger and Huynh (2020) also found that intellectual humility was unrelated to intentions to vaccinate against the seasonal flu.…”

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“…To our knowledge, there is only one study that has directly examined the relationship between intellectual humility and anti-vaccination attitudes (Senger & Huynh, 2020). Thus, a critical evaluation of their findings is imperative to the current study.…”

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A little shot of humility: Intellectual humility predicts vaccination attitudes and intention to vaccinate against COVID‐19

Huynh

Senger

2021

J Applied Social Pyschol

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Vaccinations remain a critical, albeit surprisingly controversial, health behavior, especially with the promise of widely available COVID‐19 vaccine. Intellectual humility, a virtue characterized by nonjudgmental recognition of one's own intellectual fallibility, may counter rigidity associated with anti‐vaccination attitudes and help promote vaccine‐related behaviors. This study investigated whether intellectual humility is related to anti‐vaccination attitudes and intentions to vaccinate against COVID‐19, and whether intellectual humility can predict unique variance in these outcomes beyond participant demographic and personal factors. Participants ( N = 351, 57.23% male, mean age = 37.41 years, SD = 11.51) completed a multidimensional measure for intellectual humility, the anti‐vaccination attitudes (VAX) scale, and a two‐item COVID‐19 vaccination intention scale. Bivariate correlations demonstrated that intellectual humility was negatively related with anti‐vaccination attitudes overall, r (349) = −.46, p < .001, and positively related to intentions to vaccinate against COVID‐19, r (349) = .20, p < .001. Hierarchical multiple regression revealed that intellectual humility predicted all four types anti‐vaccination attitudes, overall anti‐vaccination attitudes, and COVID‐19 vaccination intentions above and beyond demographic and personal factors (i.e., sex, race/ethnicity, age, education, socioeconomic status, and political orientation), Δ R 2 between .08 and .18, p s < .001. These results bolster intellectual humility as a malleable psychological factor to consider in efforts to combat anti‐vaccination attitudes and promote COVID‐19 vaccination uptake.

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Conservatism, anti-vaccination attitudes, and intellectual humility: examining their associations through a social judgment theory framework

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Dicke-Bohmann,

Zsila

2023

J Behav Med

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Examining four types of anti-vaccination attitudes prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic

Huynh

2022

Curr Psychol

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People hold different anti-vaccination attitudes. Having an understanding of how these attitudes have changed prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic is critical for combatting anti-vaccination attitudes and increasing vaccine intention and uptake. Data were collected from different samples in the United States at three time points prior to (n = 840) and four time points during (n = 1543) the pandemic. All participants completed a multi-dimensional measure of anti-vaccination attitudes (VAX Scale) through an online platform. Results showed that, when it comes to vaccines, worries about unforeseen side effects, concerns about commercial profiteering, and preference for natural immunity were higher during the COVID-19 pandemic than they were prior to it. However, mistrust of vaccine benefit was lower during the COVID-19 pandemic than prior to it. These differences were found even after controlling for the potential effects of participant sex, education, socioeconomic status, age, and race/ethnicity. Additionally, worries about unforeseen side effects, concerns about commercial profiteering, and preference for natural immunity increased linearly alongside the persistence of COVID-19; whereas, mistrust of vaccine benefit showed no change. Although it might be intuitive to emphasize vaccines' effectiveness to increase uptake, the public's trust in vaccine effectiveness did not appear to be the major concern. Thus, public health efforts to increase uptake of vaccines should also focus on reducing concerns about potential side effects from the vaccine, tempering the attention on financial benefits to pharmaceutical companies, and rebuffing the overreliance on natural immunity.

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Intellectual humility’s association with vaccine attitudes and intentions

Cited by 17 publications

References 29 publications

A little shot of humility: Intellectual humility predicts vaccination attitudes and intention to vaccinate against COVID‐19

A little shot of humility: Intellectual humility predicts vaccination attitudes and intention to vaccinate against COVID‐19

Conservatism, anti-vaccination attitudes, and intellectual humility: examining their associations through a social judgment theory framework

Examining four types of anti-vaccination attitudes prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic

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