York University, Canada.
J Health Psychol. 2023 Dec;28(14):1331-1344. doi: 10.1177/13591053231176261. Epub 2023 Jun 2.
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the introduction of pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions such as precautionary behaviours. The current study used affective priming to evaluate COVID-19 attitudes in vaccine-hesitant and pro-vaccine participants. Explicitly, both groups rated their overall perception of risk associated with contracting COVID-19 significantly lower compared to their perception of necessary precautions and overall adherence to public health measures. Pro-vaccine participants rated their perception of necessary precautions higher compared to vaccine-hesitant participants. During baseline measures, both groups classified COVID-19 affiliated words as unpleasant. Affective priming was observed for congruent prime-target pleasant and unpleasant word pairs but was not observed for COVID-19 related word pairs. Differences between groups in the perception of necessary public health precautions points to different underlying pathways for reduced perceived risk and lack of affective priming. These results refine previous findings indicating that implicit attitudes towards COVID-19 can be measured using the affective priming paradigm.
标题：COVID-19 大流行导致了药物和非药物干预措施的引入，如预防行为。
方法：本研究使用情感启动来评估疫苗犹豫者和支持疫苗接种者的 COVID-19 态度。
结果：明确地，与对必要预防措施和对总体公共卫生措施的遵守程度相比，两组参与者对感染 COVID-19 的总体风险感知均明显降低。与疫苗犹豫者相比，支持疫苗接种者对必要预防措施的感知程度更高。在基线测量期间，两组参与者都将与 COVID-19 相关的词归类为不愉快。观察到一致的启动-目标愉快和不愉快词对的情感启动，但未观察到与 COVID-19 相关的词对的情感启动。两组在必要公共卫生预防措施方面的感知差异表明，降低感知风险和缺乏情感启动的潜在途径不同。
结论：这些结果改进了先前的发现，表明可以使用情感启动范式来衡量对 COVID-19 的隐性态度。
