ABSTRACT

The current paper aims to study the social-psychological factors that would play roles in COVID-19 vaccine acceptance. Specifically, we examined whether national and global identifications and the leaders whom people think being in charge of managing the COVID-19 pandemic on a national scale could explain people’s acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccines developed by different countries. We proposed a model in which people’s assessment of the leader in terms of identity-leadership mediates the relationship between different identification types (i.e., global and national) and acceptance of Western, Asian or national vaccines. The model was tested on self-reported data collected in Turkey (N = 694) utilizing Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) in R software. The results revealed that national identification positively predicted acceptance of national vaccines and negatively predicted acceptance of Western vaccines; both of the relationships were also mediated by people’s assessments of the leader in terms of identity-leadership dimensions. On the other side, global identification positively predicted acceptance of Western vaccines. The implications of the findings were discussed in terms of their practical contributions along with their theoretical relevance.

摘要

目前的论文旨在研究将在 COVID-19 疫苗接受中发挥作用的社会心理因素。具体来说，我们研究了国家和全球的认同以及人们认为负责在全国范围内管理 COVID-19 大流行的领导人是否可以解释人们对不同国家开发的 COVID-19 疫苗的接受程度。我们提出了一个模型，在该模型中，人们对领导者身份的评估介导了不同身份类型（即全球和国家）与西方、亚洲或国家疫苗接受度之间的关系。该模型在土耳其收集的自我报告数据上进行了测试（N= 694) 在 R 软件中利用结构方程建模 (SEM)。结果表明，国家认同正向预测接受国家疫苗，负向预测接受西方疫苗；这两种关系也受到人们对领导者身份-领导力维度的评估的调节。另一方面，全球识别积极预示了西方疫苗的接受。研究结果的意义是根据它们的实际贡献及其理论相关性来讨论的。