ArticleCurrent psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.)2023
Dark Triad and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: the role of conspiracy beliefs and risk perception.
Article in Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- A systematic review on the psychological factors behind vaccine hesitancy in the COVID-19 era.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- The Role of Personality in Vaccination Attitudes: A Replication and Extension.International journal of psychology : Journal international de psychologie · 2026Article
- Assessing the psychological factors associated with vaccine hesitancy: psychometric properties of the psychological factors in healthcare behavior questionnaire (PF-HBQ).Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Information processing style and institutional trust as factors of COVID vaccine hesitancy.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The Association between Working Memory and Divergent Thinking: The Moderating Role of Formal Musical Background.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Unveiling the dark side of eating disorders: evidence on the role of dark triad and body uneasiness in youth.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Adult Attachment and Fear of Missing Out: Does the Mindful Attitude Matter?Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Working Memory and Divergent Thinking: The Moderating Role of Field-Dependent-Independent Cognitive Style in Adolescence.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The contribution of being physically active to successful aging.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
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Abstract
With the spread of the Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the mass vaccination plan represents the primary weapon to control the infection curve. Unfortunately, vaccine hesitancy also spread out worldwide. This led to exploring the critical factors that prevent vaccination from improving the efficacy of vaccine campaigns. In the present study, the role of the Dark Triad (psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and narcissism) in vaccine hesitancy was investigated, considering the sequential mediating effects of conspiracy beliefs and risk perception. Via a cross-sectional design, the study was conducted with 210 participants surveyed using an online questionnaire to assess the Dark Triad, vaccine hesitancy, conspiracy beliefs, risk perception, and a set of demographic and socio-cultural control variables. Results showed that conspiracy beliefs and risk perception fully mediated the association between the Dark Triad and vaccine hesitancy. This finding suggested that albeit personality accounts for individual differences in human behaviour, vaccine hesitancy is also affected by irrational and false beliefs that, in turn, weaken the risk perception associated with COVID-19. Implications and future research directions were discussed.
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