How Motives Related to Benefits for Oneself and Others Would Affect COVID-19 Vaccination in a Hong Kong Chinese General Adult Population?

ABSTRACT: Outcome expectancies involving self-directed and others-directed domains are potential determinants of completed or scheduled first-dose COVID-19 vaccination (CSFCV). This study investigated factors of CSFCV, including (a) self-directed motives [personal positive outcome expectancies (POE) and personal negative outcome expectancy (NOE)], and (b) others-directed motives (societal POE and the personality trait of prosociality). It also investigated the mediations of personal POE between societal POE and CSFCV, and moderations of prosociality between personal POE/personal NOE/societal POE and CSFCV. A cross-sectional population-based telephone survey interviewed 500 people aged 18-75 in Hong Kong in May 2021. The prevalence of CSFCV was 21.0%. Significant factors of CSFCV included personal PO

SUBMITTER: Yu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9698433 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature