Cognitive underpinnings of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy

How urban versus rural residency relates to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: A large-scale national Chinese study

“…Nonetheless, a previous study in Japan was in line with our finding, where people living in rural areas were also more willing to be vaccinated than those in urban areas ( Yoda and Katsuyama, 2021 ). First, one possible explanation for this difference is that the perceived severity of the COVID-19 epidemic was lower among urban participants than rural participants in our findings ( P < 0.05), which may influence the results regarding lower COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among urban participants ( Acar-Burkay and Cristian, 2022 ). Second, rural participants learned about the COVID-19 vaccine mostly via healthcare practitioners, whereas urban participants learned about the COVID-19 vaccine primarily from Internet sources (Appendix file: Table S1 ).…”

Self-esteem influences the willingness to engage in COVID-19 prevention behavior and persuasion efficacy

“…Individual behaviors to reduce the spread of disease, such as washing one's hands, practicing social distancing, and getting vaccinated, have a large impact on controlling pandemics ( Fong et al, 2020 ; Mitze et al, 2020 ; Moghadas et al, 2021 ). Previous research has started to explore socio-demographic factors (e.g., gender, income, political orientation; Callaghan et al, 2021 ; da Fonseca et al, 2021 ; Liu and Li, 2021 ; Savoia et al, 2021 ), cognitive and affective constructs (e.g., anticipated regret, working memory, executive function; Acar-Burkay and Cristian, 2022 ; Capasso, Caso & Conner, 2021 ; Xie et al, 2020 ) and personality traits (e.g., the Big 5; Schmiedeberg and Thönnissen, 2021 ) that shape people's willingness to follow protective measures during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. We contribute to this research by identifying self-esteem as an important predictor of health-related behaviors.…”

Impact of social media news on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and vaccination behavior

“…1 . According to previous studies, age, gender, and education level are associated with vaccine acceptance ( Acar-Burkay and Cristian, 2022 , Khan et al, 2021 ). In order to identify the potential demographic effects, we consider age, gender and education level as control variables in this study.…”