How Mortality Salience and Self-Construal Make a Difference: An Online Experiment to Test Perception of Importance of COVID-19 Vaccines in China.
Health Commun
; 38(12): 2698-2701, 2023 12.
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| ID: mdl-35898116
ABSTRACT
To better understand why Chinese residents' COVID-19 perceptions of the importance of vaccination change dramatically over time, this research used an online lab-like experiment to test the antecedents of individuals' perception of the importance of COVID-19 vaccines. We find that participants who view themselves as separate from others (i.e. independent self-construal) perceive COVID-19 vaccines as more important than Hepatitis B vaccines (i.e. control group), regardless of how salient mortality is for them. In contrast, among participants who view themselves as a part of their social groups (i.e. interdependent self-construal), awareness of death (i.e. mortality salience) plays a moderating role. Specifically, when mortality is salient, COVID-19 vaccines are considered more important than Hepatitis B vaccines; when morality is not salient, vaccine type does not make a difference on perceptions of vaccine importance.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Vacinas
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COVID-19
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
Asia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Health Commun
Assunto da revista:
PESQUISA EM SERVICOS DE SAUDE
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SERVICOS DE SAUDE
Ano de publicação:
2023
Tipo de documento:
Article