Network analysis of the relationships between conspiracy beliefs towards COVID-19 vaccine and symptoms of fear of COVID-19 in a sample of latin american countries.

Autor: Caycho-Rodríguez T; Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Privada del Norte, Lima, Peru.; Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Privada del Norte, Av. Alfredo Mendiola, 6062 Lima, Los Olivos Peru., Ventura-León J; Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Privada del Norte, Lima, Peru., Valencia PD; Facultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Tlanepantla de Baz, State of Mexico Mexico., Vilca LW; South American Center for Education and Research in Public Health, Universidad Norbert Wiener, Lima, Peru., Carbajal-León C; Universidad Norbert Wiener, Lima, Peru., Reyes-Bossio M; Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Lima, Peru., Delgado-Campusano M; Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Lima, Peru., Rojas-Jara C; Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud. Departamento de Psicología, Universidad Católica del Maule, Talca, Chile., Polanco-Carrasco R; Cuadernos de Neuropsicología, Rancagua, Chile., Gallegos M; Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud. Departamento de Psicología, Universidad Católica del Maule, Talca, Chile.; Pontificia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brasil.; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina.; Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina., Cervigni M; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina.; Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud y del Comportamiento, Universidad Adventista del Plata, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Rosario, Argentina.; Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina., Martino P; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina.; Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina., Palacios DA; Centro de Desarrollo Humano, Universidad Mariano Gálvez, Guatemala City, Guatemala., Moreta-Herrera R; Escuela de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Ambato, Ecuador., Samaniego-Pinho A; Carrera de Psicología, Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Asunción, Paraguay., Elías Lobos Rivera M; Escuela de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador., Figares AB; Centro de Estudios Adlerianos, Instituto Alfred Adler Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay., Puerta-Cortés DX; Programa de Psicología, Universidad de Ibagué, Ibagué, Colombia., Corrales-Reyes IE; Servicio de Cirugía Maxilofacial, Hospital General Universitario Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Granma, Bayamo, Granma, Cuba., Calderón R; Carrera de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad del Valle de Mexico, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico., Tapia BP; Carrera de Psicología, Universidad Católica Boliviana San Pablo, La Paz, Bolivia., Arias Gallegos WL; Departamento de Psicología, Universidad Católica San Pablo, Arequipa, Perú., Petzold O; Lone Star College-Conroe Center, Conroe, TX USA.; Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
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Zdroj: Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) [Curr Psychol] 2022 Sep 07, pp. 1-16. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Sep 07.
DOI: 10.1007/s12144-022-03622-w
Abstrakt: The present study examined how conspiracy beliefs about COVID-19 vaccines specifically relate to symptoms of fear of COVID-19 in a sample of four South American countries. A total of 1785 people from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru participated, responding to a sociodemographic survey, the Fear of COVID-19 scale (FCV-19 S) and the Vaccine Conspiracy Beliefs Scale-COVID-19 (VCBS-COVID-19). Network analysis identified the most important symptoms of fear and conspiracy beliefs about COVID-19 vaccines (nodes) and the associations between them (edges). In addition, the robustness of the network of these indicators of centrality and the possible differences in the structure and connectivity of the networks between the four countries were evaluated. The results suggest that the nodes with the highest centrality were items 2 and 5 of the FCV-19 S and item 2 of the VCBS-COVID-19. Likewise, item 6 is the belief that most predicts conspiracy beliefs about vaccines against COVID-19; while item 6 was the symptom that most predicts fear of COVID-19. The findings strongly support cross-cultural similarities in the networks across the four countries rather than differences. Although it was expected that a higher presence of symptoms of fear of COVID-19 may lead people to compensate for their fear by believing in conspiratorial ideas about vaccines and, consequently, rejecting the COVID-19 vaccine, the results do not clearly show this relationship. This could lead other researchers to generate evidence to explain the differences between Latin American countries and countries in other contexts in terms of vaccination rates. This evidence could be useful to develop policies favoring vaccination against COVID-19 that are more contextualized to the Latin American region, characterized by social instability and economic recession during the pandemic.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interestThe authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
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