ArticleApplied cognitive psychology2022
Black-and-white thinking and conspiracy beliefs prevent parents from vaccinating their children against COVID-19.
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- COVID-19 vaccine confidence among parents of racially diverse children aged 0-12 years old in Canada: The role of major experience of racial discrimination, health literacy, and conspiracy beliefs.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2025Article
- Health Decisions Under Uncertainty: The Roles of Conspiracy Beliefs and Institutional Trust.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Latinx youth's and parents' covid-19 beliefs, vaccine hesitancy and vaccination rates: Longitudinal associations in a community sample.PloS one · 2024Article
- Not Getting Vaccinated? It Is a Matter of Problem-Solving Abilities and Socio-Cognitive Polarization.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- The role of conspiracy mindset in reducing support for child vaccination for COVID-19 in the United States.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Black-and-white thinking and conspiracy beliefs prevent parents from vaccinating their children against COVID-19.Applied cognitive psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Understanding predictors of parents' willingness to vaccinate their children appears fundamental to promote vaccine acceptability, especially in a pandemic scenario. The present study aimed to investigate the role of conspiracy beliefs and absolutist thinking in parental attitude toward COVID-19 vaccine, and the predictive role of parents' individual differences on decisions against children's vaccination. An online survey was administered to 415 parents of children aged 5-11, at the very beginning of the vaccination targeting this population in Italy. Results showed that absolutism predicted the tendency to believe in conspiracies, associated with a negative attitude toward the COVID-19 vaccine administration to children. Moreover, mothers were less willing to vaccinate children and parents of children aged 5-7 were more hesitant, or even against vaccination, than parents of older children. Finally, the worry about consequences of COVID-19 infection on children's health facilitated vaccine adherence. These findings contribute to deepening mechanisms regarding the vaccine acceptability.
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