Political variations in pandemic lifestyles and COVID-19 vaccination by age cohort in the United States.

ABSTRACT: While recent scholarship suggests that political affiliation is a robust predictor of pandemic behaviors and COVID-19 vaccination status, research has yet to examine whether the impact of political affiliation on these outcomes vary by age. Drawing on health lifestyles theory, we contribute to the social epidemiology of infectious disease behaviors by testing whether the impact of political affiliation on risky pandemic health lifestyles and COVID vaccination varies by age cohort. We employ data collected from the 2021 Crime, Health, and Politics Survey (CHAPS), a national study of adults from the United States, to formally assess this understudied association. In all models, Democrats reported less risky pandemic lifestyles compared to their Republican counterparts. Moreover, Democrats di

SUBMITTER: Dowd-Arrow B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10166612 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature