University students' adherence and vaccination attitudes during the COVID-19 pandemic: Focusing on costs and benefits.

ABSTRACT: Numerous measures were implemented to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Adhering to these measures as well as getting vaccinated is associated with subjective costs and benefits. Since young people like university students largely feel less vulnerable to the virus, other costs and benefits than health might be more decisive for them. This article combines the results of a qualitative and a quantitative longitudinal study conducted with university students mainly living in Tyrol, Austria. The studies focused on the second wave of infections of the COVID-19 pandemic. Health concerns, altruistic concerns, worrying about the economic consequences of the measures and reactance played an important role for students in deciding what measures to follow and their vaccination attitudes. The effects wer

SUBMITTER: Kulcar V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9297983 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature