Trait reactance as psychological motivation to reject vaccination: Two longitudinal studies and one experimental study.

reactance state reactance trait reactance vaccination vaccine hesitancy

Journal

Applied psychology. Health and well-being
ISSN: 1758-0854
Titre abrégé: Appl Psychol Health Well Being
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101502957

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
09 Nov 2023
Historique:
received: 02 08 2023
accepted: 17 10 2023
medline: 9 11 2023
pubmed: 9 11 2023
entrez: 9 11 2023
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Anti-science attitudes can be resilient to scientific evidence if they are rooted in psychological motives. One such motive is trait reactance, which refers to the need to react with opposition when one's freedom of choice has been threatened. In three studies, we investigated trait reactance as a psychological motivation to reject vaccination. In the longitudinal studies (n = 199; 293), we examined if trait reactance measured before the COVID-19 pandemic was related to people's willingness to get vaccinated against COVID-19 up to 2 years later during the pandemic. In the experimental study (n = 398), we tested whether trait reactance makes anti-vaccination attitudes more resistant to information and whether this resistance can be mitigated by framing the information to minimize the risk of triggering state reactance. The longitudinal studies showed that higher trait reactance before the COVID-19 pandemic was related to lower willingness to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Our experimental study indicated that highly reactant individuals' willingness to vaccinate was unaffected by the amount and framing of the information provided. Trait reactance has a strong and durable impact on vaccination willingness. This highlights the importance of considering the role of trait reactance in people's vaccination-related decision-making.

Identifiants

pubmed: 37942873
doi: 10.1111/aphw.12506
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Subventions

Organisme : European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme
ID : 964728
Organisme : Academy of Finland
ID : 316726
Organisme : Academy of Finland
ID : 316004
Organisme : Minority Research at Åbo Akademi University
Organisme : Polin Institute

Informations de copyright

© 2023 The Authors. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of International Association of Applied Psychology.

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Auteurs

Anna Soveri (A)

FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
Centre for Population Health Research, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland.

Linda C Karlsson (LC)

FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
Centre for Population Health Research, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland.

Karl O Mäki (KO)

Department of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.

Dawn Holford (D)

School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.

Angelo Fasce (A)

Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.

Philipp Schmid (P)

Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Institute for Planetary Health Behavior, Erfurt, Germany.
Health Communication Working Group, Implementation Research, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

Jan Antfolk (J)

Department of Psychology, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland.

Linnea Karlsson (L)

FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
Centre for Population Health Research, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland.

Hasse Karlsson (H)

FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
Centre for Population Health Research, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland.
Department of Psychiatry, Turku University Hospital and University of Turku, Turku, Finland.

Saara Nolvi (S)

FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
Centre for Population Health Research, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland.
Department of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.

Max Karukivi (M)

Department of Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland.

Mikael Lindfelt (M)

Department of Theology, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland.

Stephan Lewandowsky (S)

School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
Department of Psychology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.
School of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.

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