Pregled bibliografske jedinice broj: 1073910
It just doesn’t feel right – the relevance of emotions and intuition for parental vaccine conspiracy beliefs and vaccination uptake
It just doesn’t feel right – the relevance of emotions and intuition for parental vaccine conspiracy beliefs and vaccination uptake // Psychology & health, 35 (2020), 5; 538-554 doi:10.1080/08870446.2019.1673894 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
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Naslov
It just doesn’t feel right – the relevance of
emotions and intuition for parental vaccine
conspiracy beliefs and vaccination uptake
Autori
Bubić, Andreja ; Tomljenović, Helena ; Erceg, Nikola
Izvornik
Psychology & health (0887-0446) 35
(2020), 5;
538-554
Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni
Ključne riječi
Vaccine hesitancy ; conspiracy beliefs ; emotions ; affect-heuristic ; optimism ; need for cognition ; faith in intuition
Sažetak
Objective: Vaccine hesitancy has been identified as one of the major contributors to child under-vaccination. Research indicates that some hesitant parents’ mistrust extends to specific conspiracy ideation, but research on vaccine conspiracy beliefs is still scarce. Our objective was to explore factors contributing to parental vaccine conspiracy beliefs and actual vaccine uptake in children. Design: A cross-sectional correlational design with a non-probabilistic sample of 823 volunteer participants surveyed online. Main outcome measures: We focussed on the contributions of the analytically rational and experientially intuitive thinking styles, as well as measures of emotional functioning, namely optimism and emotions towards vaccination, to vaccine conspiracy beliefs and vaccine uptake as outcomes. Results: The obtained results showed that greater vaccine conspiracy beliefs were associated with stronger unpleasant emotions towards vaccination and greater experientially intuitive thinking, as well as lower levels of education. Furthermore, unpleasant emotions towards vaccination and intuitive thinking were associated with vaccine refusal. Conclusion: These findings confirm the primary importance of emotions, along with the propensity towards intuitive thinking, in the context of vaccine conspiracy beliefs and refusal, supporting the notion that parents’ avoidance is guided by their affect. These results have direct implications for addressing vaccine hesitancy within public campaigns and policies.
Izvorni jezik
Engleski
Znanstvena područja
Psihologija
POVEZANOST RADA
Ustanove:
Filozofski fakultet, Zagreb,
Filozofski fakultet u Splitu
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Časopis indeksira:
- Current Contents Connect (CCC)
- Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC)
- Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
- SCI-EXP, SSCI i/ili A&HCI
- Scopus
- MEDLINE
