a Department of Mass Communication, Advertising, and Public Relations , College of Communication, Boston University.
Health Commun. 2018 Sep;33(9):1088-1096. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2017.1331307. Epub 2017 Jun 21.
The last few decades have seen growing concerns among parents regarding the safety of childhood vaccines, arguably leading to the rise of the anti-vaccine movement. This study is an effort to understand situational and cross-situational factors that influence individuals' negative attitudes toward vaccines, referred to as vaccine negativity. In doing so, this study elucidated how situational and cross-situational factors influence vaccine negativity. Specifically, this study tested how knowledge deficiency, or acceptance of scientifically inaccurate data about vaccines, and institutional trust influenced negative attitudes toward vaccines. Using the situational theory of problem solving as the theoretical framework, this study also identified and tested a knowledge-attitude-motivation-behavior framework of vaccine negative individuals' cognitions and behaviors about the issue.
过去几十年中，父母对儿童疫苗安全性的担忧与日俱增，可以说这导致了反疫苗运动的兴起。本研究旨在了解影响个体对疫苗负面态度的情境和跨情境因素，我们将这种负面态度称为“疫苗消极性”。为此，本研究阐明了情境和跨情境因素如何影响疫苗消极性。具体来说，本研究检验了知识缺陷，即对疫苗的科学不准确数据的接受程度，以及对制度的信任如何影响对疫苗的负面态度。本研究还利用问题解决的情境理论作为理论框架，确定并检验了疫苗消极个体对该问题的认知和行为的知识-态度-动机-行为框架。
