ArticleTechnological forecasting and social change2022
The role of religiosity in product and technology acceptance: Evidence from COVID-19 vaccines.
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- Bridging science and spirituality: the intersection of religion and public health in the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Religious beliefs and practices, political orientation, and distrust in healthcare predict attitudes toward mRNA vaccines in the United States.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Religious beliefs and practices, political orientation, and distrust in healthcare predict attitudes toward mRNA vaccines in the United States.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- COVID-19 vaccine attitude, vaccine literacy, and religious attitudes: a cross-sectional study in Turkiye.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Health Maintenance Organization-mHealth Versus Face-to-Face Interaction for Health Care in Israel: Cross-Sectional Web-Based Survey Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- Barriers and Facilitators to COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake among Polish Patients: A Qualitative Interview Study.Vaccines · 2023Article
- Cognitive and Cultural Factors That Affect General Vaccination and COVID-19 Vaccination Attitudes.Vaccines · 2022Article
- The impact of Muslim and Christian religious leaders responding to COVID-19 in Israel.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Previous research on religion and economic phenomena has suggested that religious attitudes are related to risk aversion. Moreover, risk attitudes play a significant role in the adoption and diffusion of technological innovations. However, the role of religiosity in technology-related phenomena is still relatively unexplored. The present study fills this gap and investigates the impact of religiosity on the acceptance of innovative technologies and products in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, we frame COVID-19 vaccines as new products based on innovative production technologies and show that their acceptance by the general public is negatively associated with country-level religiosity. Furthermore, we investigate the role of religious leaders in endorsing COVID-19 vaccines to their followers. Our hypotheses are empirically tested on 1179 weekly observations of vaccination rates in 22 European countries characterised by different levels of religiosity. The results suggest that religiosity is negatively associated with vaccine rates after controlling for country-level social and economic factors. Conversely, the countries where Roman Catholics are the majority religious group display a positive association between religiosity and vaccine rates, highlighting the role of leaders in endorsing the COVID-19 vaccination campaign.
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