Wang Peng-Wei, Ahorsu Daniel Kwasi, Lin Chung-Ying, Chen I-Hua, Yen Cheng-Fang, Kuo Yi-Jie, Griffiths Mark D, Pakpour Amir H
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan.
Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan.
Vaccines (Basel). 2021 Apr 13;9(4):380. doi: 10.3390/vaccines9040380.
The aims of the present study were to examine the prediction of the threat and coping appraisal utilizing an extended protection motivation theory (PMT) for the motivation to have COVID-19 vaccination and the influence of various information sources on coping appraisal among university students in China.
The sample comprised 3145 students from 43 universities in China who completed an online survey including PMT constructs as well as constructs added to PMT. The PMT constructs comprised motivation to have COVID-19 vaccination, threat appraisal, and coping appraisal. The extended PMT constructs comprised knowledge about mechanisms and information sources of COVID-19 vaccination.
Perceived severity of COVID-19 was positively associated with motivation to have COVID-19 vaccination. Receiving information concerning COVID-19 vaccination from medical personnel was associated with greater self-efficacy, response efficacy, and knowledge, whereas receiving information concerning COVID-19 vaccination from coworkers/colleagues was associated with less response efficacy and knowledge. Receiving online information concerning COVID-19 vaccination was associated with greater response cost of vaccination efficacy and less knowledge.
This study supported the prediction of perceived severity in the PMT for motivation to have COVID-19 vaccination among university students in China. Vaccination information sources have different effects on students' coping appraisal of COVID-19 vaccination.
本研究旨在运用扩展的保护动机理论（PMT）来检验对新冠病毒疫苗接种动机的威胁和应对评估预测，以及各种信息来源对中国大学生新冠病毒疫苗接种应对评估的影响。
样本包括来自中国43所大学的3145名学生，他们完成了一项在线调查，其中包括PMT结构以及添加到PMT中的结构。PMT结构包括新冠病毒疫苗接种动机、威胁评估和应对评估。扩展的PMT结构包括关于新冠病毒疫苗接种机制和信息来源的知识。
对新冠病毒的感知严重性与新冠病毒疫苗接种动机呈正相关。从医务人员那里获得有关新冠病毒疫苗接种的信息与更高的自我效能感、反应效能和知识相关，而从同事那里获得有关新冠病毒疫苗接种的信息与较低的反应效能和知识相关。获得有关新冠病毒疫苗接种的在线信息与更高的疫苗接种效能反应成本和更低的知识相关。
本研究支持了PMT中感知严重性对中国大学生新冠病毒疫苗接种动机的预测。疫苗接种信息来源对学生新冠病毒疫苗接种的应对评估有不同影响。
