Doing it for us: Community identification predicts willingness to receive a COVID-19 vaccination via perceived sense of duty to the community.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has presented huge challenges for communities across the world. Vaccines offer the best hope for controlling its deleterious effects, but not everybody is willing to be vaccinated, so it is important to explore variables that might predict vaccination willingness. The present study addressed this by drawing upon the Social Identity Approach, which posits that people's membership of social groups is consequential for their thoughts and behaviour. Specifically, it was predicted that people's strength of identification with their local community (a social group that came to particular prominence during the pandemic) would positively predict their willingness to engage in community-related prosocial normative behaviour (i.e., their perceived sense of duty, as a community

SUBMITTER: Wakefield JRH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8239513 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature