Maciuszek Józef, Polak Mateusz, Stasiuk Katarzyna, Rosiński Jerzy
Institute of Applied Psychology, Faculty of Management and Communication, Jagiellonian University, 31-007 Krakow, Poland.
Institute of Economy, Finance and Management, Faculty of Management and Communication, Jagiellonian University, 31-007 Krakow, Poland.
Vaccines (Basel). 2023 Jan 25;11(2):262. doi: 10.3390/vaccines11020262.
The study aims to investigate how trust in science, conspiratorial thinking, and religiosity affected people's declared willingness to vaccinate against COVID-19 at the onset of the vaccination program in Poland, their actual vaccination, and the consistency between intention and vaccination.
In a longitudinal design, a representative sample of 918 members of the Polish general population was polled at the beginning of the vaccination program (February 2021) and polled again after 6 months of mass vaccination (August 2021). We measured the willingness to vaccinate, actual vaccination after 6 months, and individual variables-trust in science, conspiratorial thinking and religiosity.
The actual vaccination rate was higher than the declared intent, especially in the initially undecided and unwilling groups. Higher Trust in science and lower Conspiratorial Thinking were associated with declared intent to vaccinate and actual vaccination, while Religiosity was not clearly associated with vaccination.
Declared willingness to vaccinate is not an effective indicator of actual vaccination. Trust in science and Conspiratorial thinking are important factors associated with vaccine hesitancy. There may be a possibility to influence those unwilling to vaccinate and that are undecided to eventually get vaccinated.
本研究旨在调查在波兰疫苗接种计划启动时,对科学的信任、阴谋论思维和宗教信仰如何影响人们宣称的接种新冠疫苗的意愿、他们的实际接种情况以及意愿与接种之间的一致性。
采用纵向设计,在疫苗接种计划开始时(2021年2月)对918名波兰普通民众的代表性样本进行了调查,并在大规模接种6个月后(2021年8月)再次进行调查。我们测量了接种意愿、6个月后的实际接种情况以及个体变量——对科学的信任、阴谋论思维和宗教信仰。
实际接种率高于宣称的意愿,尤其是在最初未决定和不愿意接种的群体中。对科学的更高信任和更低的阴谋论思维与宣称的接种意愿和实际接种相关,而宗教信仰与接种没有明显关联。
宣称的接种意愿不是实际接种的有效指标。对科学的信任和阴谋论思维是与疫苗犹豫相关的重要因素。有可能影响那些不愿意接种和未决定是否接种的人最终接种疫苗。