Openness Relates to COVID-19 Vaccination Rates across 48 United States but Politics Trump Personality

Webster, Gregory D.; Howell, Jennifer L.; Losee, Joy E.; Mahar, Elizabeth A.; Wongsomboon, Val

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“…Openness to experience has also been the most strongly associated of the Big Five with liberal political orientations [ 37 ] and individuals with such attitudes have been more likely to be COVID-19 vaccine acceptors [ 38 ]. It is possibly what explains the significantly higher scores for Openness to experience in COVID-19 vaccine acceptors in this group mirrors what has been reported elsewhere in as disparate populations as those from the USA and China [ 39 , 40 ].…”

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COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Personality Traits; Results from a Large National Cross-Sectional Survey in Qatar

2023

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Attitudes to vaccination arise from a complex interplay of personal and environmental factors. This has been true for the COVID-19 vaccination attitudes too and understanding personal factors would help design immunisation strategies that help in infectious disease control. The five-factor model of personality has been established as a valid construct in exploring individual attitudes and traits. This institutional review board approved study explores the relationship between these five domains of personality and attitudes to COVID-19 vaccination in Qatar which has a migrant majority population. A cross-sectional survey was conducted in Qatar using an online survey link containing validated tools to measure vaccine hesitancy and personality traits. People from diverse ethnic and sociodemographic backgrounds, amounting to 5340 individuals, completed the self-report survey. After controlling for social and demographic variables, individuals scoring significantly higher on Conscientiousness were more likely to refuse the COVID-19 vaccination, while those scoring significantly lower on Openness to experience and Neuroticism were also more likely to refuse COVID-19 vaccination. Both groups of individuals scoring significantly higher and lower on Conscientiousness and Neuroticism, respectively, were more likely to trust their own research than trust endorsement of the COVID-19 vaccine from their doctor or healthcare organisation. The study highlights the highly complex and sometimes contradictory relationship between vaccine hesitancy and personality traits and makes a case for understanding this relationship better in order to inform successful immunisation strategies.

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COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Personality Traits; Results from a Large National Cross-Sectional Survey in Qatar

2023

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“…However, the most commonly used broad personality domains such as the Big Five are only weakly and sometimes inconsistently associated with vaccination. For example, neuroticism has been linked to less and openness to more favourable stances toward vaccination [19, 21,23,24,29], but there have also been reports of openness predicting negative attitudes toward vaccination in general [58]. In our cross-sectional analyses, high neuroticism and low openness weakly predicted vaccination, but these associations were non-significant in our across-time analyses.…”

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“…Longitudinal studies have linked vaccine hesitancy to past measurements of neuroticism but no other Big Five domain [11] and vaccine intention to pre-pandemic impulsivity and psychopathy but not altruism [28]. From the pre-pandemic variations of the Big Five, only higher openness predicted vaccination rates across 48 US states [29], whereas higher pre-pandemic neuroticism predicted vaccination rates across 56 countries [30].…”

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Self- and informant-reported personality traits and vaccination against COVID-19

Arumäe,

Realo,

Ausmees

et al. 2024

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As COVID-19 vaccines’ accessibility has grown, so has the role of personal choice in vaccination, and not everybody is willing to vaccinate. Exploring personality traits’ associations with vaccination could highlight some person-level drivers of, and barriers to, vaccination. We used self- and informant-ratings of the Five-Factor Model domains and their subtraits (a) measured approximately at the time of vaccination with the 100 Nuances of Personality (100NP) item pool (N = 56,575) and (b) measured on average ten years before the pandemic with the NEO Personality Inventory-3 (NEO-PI-3; N = 3,168). We tested individual domains’ and either items’ (in the 100NP sample) or facets’ (in the NEO-PI-3 sample) associations with vaccination, as well as their collective ability to predict vaccination using elastic net models trained and tested in independent sample partitions. Although the NEO-PI-3 domains and facets did not predict vaccination ten years later, the domains correlated with vaccination in the 100NP sample, with vaccinated people scoring slightly higher on neuroticism and agreeableness and lower on openness, controlling for age, sex, and education. Collectively, the five domains predicted vaccination with an accuracy of r = .08. Associations were stronger at the item level. Vaccinated people were, on average, more science-minded, politically liberal, respectful of rules and authority, and anxious but less spiritual, religious, and self-assured. The 100NP items collectively predicted vaccination with r = .31 accuracy. We conclude that unvaccinated people may be a psychologically heterogeneous group and highlight some potential areas for action in vaccination campaigns.

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“…This makes understanding which factors best predict vaccination decisions in this group vitally important. Demographic characteristics (Sherman et al, 2021), attitudes toward vaccination (Breslin et al, 2021;Shacham et al, 2021), perceived social support (Moscardino et al, 2022), personality traits (Webster et al, 2022), fear of COVID-19 (Willis et al, 2021), understanding of COVID-19 (Ruiz and Bell, 2021), trust in health authorities (Petersen et al, 2021) and previous vaccination history for the seasonal influenza vaccine (Caserotti et al, 2021), have each been shown, in some way, to influence vaccine acceptance/hesitancy. Yet it is also recognized that these factors may be differently relevant for family caregivers because they are likely to be actively considering both themselves and the person for whom they provide care.…”

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COVID-19 vaccine uptake among family caregivers of people with dementia: The role of attitudes toward vaccination, perceived social support and personality traits

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People with dementia have an increased risk of contracting severe forms of COVID-19. Although in worldwide vaccination programs priority has been given to older people, having taken the vaccine does not totally eliminate the risk of contracting COVID-19 when one is in close contact with unvaccinated people. Thus, family caregivers’ choices to remain unvaccinated against COVID-19 could have potentially lethal consequences for their relatives. To our knowledge, this study represents the first attempt within the international literature to analyze COVID-19 vaccine uptake among family caregivers of people with dementia and to identify some of the psychological factors, related to COVID-19 and vaccination behavior, that could facilitate or hinder vaccine uptake. Contact information for family caregivers was obtained from five different centers and associations throughout the Italian territory. Data were collected from 179 respondents during July-September 2021 using a cross-sectional web-based survey design. More than 75% of the respondents indicated that had been vaccinated against COVID-19 and reported receiving vaccine information mainly from print or electronic newspapers (86%), followed by TV (81%) and families (64.2%). In multivariable logistic regression analyses, worries about unforeseen future effects was significantly related to COVID-19 vaccine uptake, indicating that family caregivers concerned about potential side effects of vaccines were less likely to have been vaccinated against COVID-19 (OR = 0.60, CI = 0.40-0.89). Openness to experience was also related to COVID-19 vaccine uptake, with family caregivers higher on this trait being less likely to have been vaccinated against COVID-19 (OR = 0.83, CI = 0.71-0.98). Implications for targeting of vaccine-related messages are discussed.

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Openness Relates to COVID-19 Vaccination Rates across 48 United States but Politics Trump Personality

Cited by 4 publications

References 22 publications

COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Personality Traits; Results from a Large National Cross-Sectional Survey in Qatar

COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Personality Traits; Results from a Large National Cross-Sectional Survey in Qatar

Self- and informant-reported personality traits and vaccination against COVID-19

COVID-19 vaccine uptake among family caregivers of people with dementia: The role of attitudes toward vaccination, perceived social support and personality traits

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