TY - JOUR AU - Roanghesi, Constantin AU - Găianu, Pantilimon-Alexandru PY - 2022/11/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Explaining the COVID-19 Vaccination Intention and Authorities' Support for Limiting the Spread of the Disease - A Comparative Analysis JF - Studia Doctoralia JA - SD VL - 13 IS - 2 SE - Projects and researches DO - 10.47040/sd/sdpsych.v13i2.151 UR - https://studiadoctoralia.ro/index.php/sdpsych/article/view/151 SP - 97-106 AB - <p>This study investigates intentions to vaccinate against&nbsp;Coronavirus and to support the authorities in limiting the&nbsp;pandemic's effects from the theory of planned behavior&nbsp;perspective in a Romanian adult sample. We intend to&nbsp;improve this model by adding additional variables such as&nbsp;irrational beliefs, past behavior, and risk perception.&nbsp;Hierarchical regression analyses show that the model&nbsp;based on demographic variables such as age and&nbsp;education and the theory of planned behavior constructs&nbsp;best explain the vaccination intention (75%) and support for&nbsp;authorities (29%). The results obtained indicate that a high&nbsp;level of education, favorable subjective norms inside the&nbsp;population, a positive attitude towards vaccination, lack of&nbsp;pressure/obligation to vaccinate, and low perception of the&nbsp;risk associated with this medical procedure led to an&nbsp;individual decision in favor of vaccination. Increased values&nbsp;of normative beliefs and perceived behavior control (from&nbsp;the TPB model) lead to increased support given to the&nbsp;authorities and, the low values of irrational beliefs, in the&nbsp;case of beliefs in conspiracy theories and pseudo-religious&nbsp;beliefs, also increase the support given to the authorities.</p> ER -