title: Psychological factors of anti-vaccination behavior of Belarusians in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
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metadata.value: Karpinski, Konstantin V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-12-27T18:09:20Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-12-27T18:09:20Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-09
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metadata.value: Karpinski K. V. Psychological factors of anti-vaccination behavior of Belarusians in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Psychology, 2022, vol. 12, issue 3, рр. 265–284. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu16.2022.303 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu16.2022.303
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/38738
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metadata.value: The article presents the results of a theoretical and empirical study of the psychological factors
  of refusal from preventive vaccinations against COVID-19 during an active campaign for mass vaccination of the population of Belarus. Among these factors, the individual characteristics of
  the subjective perception of the likelihood of infection, the severity of the course and consequences
  of coronavirus infection, as well as the effectiveness and safety of anticovid vaccination
  were considered; general attitudes in the field of vaccination and health care; and value attitudes
  towards health and life. The prevalence of the main categories of vaccination behavior — proand
  antivaccinational — was determined in the Belarusian population sample; the peculiarities
  of the cognitive assessment of COVID-19 and anticovid vaccination inherent in Belarusians, as
  well as their meaning-related determinants, were revealed; psychological differences between
  people with different directions of vaccination behavior are revealed; identified psychological
  predictors of antivaccination behavior. The empirical study was conducted on a representative
  population sample of residents of the Republic of Belarus (N = 582, aged from 18 to 49 years,
  178 men and 404 women), using questionnaire methods, as well as standardized personality
  questionnaires: “Scale of Basic Value”, “Scale of Healthcare Attitudes”, “Scale of Antivaccination
  Attitudes”. The results of the study indicate that generalized and nonspecific factors prevail in
  the regulation of the antivaccination behavior of Belarusians in the context of the coronavirus
  pandemic, which are associated with personal comprehension and cognitive assessment not so
  much of a new type of coronavirus infection and anti-vaccines offered to the population, but of
  the national healthcare system in general and vaccination as such. In this case, the leading factors
  and predictors of anti-vaccination behavior of Belarusians are general negative attitudes —
  anti-vaccination, anti-drug and anti-bureaucratic attitudes. In the course of the study, psychometrically
  developed and validated the original Russian-language “Scale of Antivaccination Attitudes”,
  designed to change the generalized negative-evaluative (skeptical-distrustful) attitude of
  the subject to vaccines and vaccination in general. The results obtained indicate the compliance
  of its measuring properties with conventional psychometric standards.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Psychology;Volume 12; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: COVID-19 pandemic
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: vaccination
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: vaccination behavior
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: anti-vaccine attitudes
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: health attitudes
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: health value
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: basic value
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Psychological factors of anti-vaccination behavior of Belarusians in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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