Pro-vaccination subjective norms moderate the relationship between conspiracy mentality and vaccination intentions.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Increasing vaccination hesitancy threatens societies' capacity to contain pandemics and other diseases. One factor that is positively associated with vaccination intentions is a supportive subjective norm (i.e., the perception that close others approve of vaccination). On the downside, there is evidence that negative attitudes toward vaccinations are partly rooted in conspiracy mentality (i.e., the tendency to believe in conspiracies). The objective of this study is to examine the role of subjective norms in moderating the association between conspiracy mentality and vaccine hesitancy. We examined two competing predictions: Are those high in conspiracy mentality immune to subjective norms, or do subjective norms moderate the relationship between conspiracy mentality and

SUBMITTER: Winter K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8420227 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature