Willingness to Vaccinate against COVID-19: The Role of Assumptions on the World’s Orderliness and Positivity

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2021Autor
Trzebiński, Jerzy
Potocka, Aleksandra
Trzebiński, Wojciech
Krzysztoń, Marta
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This research investigates why people refuse the COVID-19
vaccine despite medical argumentation and dangerous COVID-
19 consequences. As the global pandemic development is
beyond each person’s control, we predicted that two basic
assumptions about the world, namely its order and positivity,
would play an important role. Two studies on the Polish
population took place in December 2020 and January 2021.
The most interesting finding was that in both studies, belief in
world orderliness negatively moderated, i.e., hampered, the
positive relationship between belief in the world’s positivity
and willingness to vaccinate. It seems that the COVID-19 vaccination
might evoke ia feeling of disruption in biological and
social natural functioning. If we generalize, any idea undermining
our habits and shared beliefs is the more challenged
and opposed we have strong faith in the world as an ordered
and predictable reality. Believing in the world’s positivity may
even aggregate this attitude. In discussing these results, we
propose how to introduce new ideas or innovative products
to consumers.