Huang, Po-Ching and Hung, Ching-Hsia and Kuo, Yi-Jie and Chen, Yu-Pin and Ahorsu, Daniel Kwasi and Yen, Cheng-Fang and Lin, Chung-Ying and Griffiths, Mark D. and Pakpour HA, Amir (2021) Expanding Protection Motivation Theory to Explain Willingness of COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake among Taiwanese University Students. Vaccines.
![[img]](http://eprints.qums.ac.ir/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png) |
PDF
Download (345kB) |
Abstract
Abstract: Vaccination appears to be one of the effective strategies to control the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the challenge of vaccine hesitancy may lower the uptake rate and affect overall vaccine efficacy. Being a low-risk group in terms of serious consequences of infection, university students may possess low motivation to get vaccinated. Therefore, an expanded Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) incorporating perceived knowledge, adaptive response, and maladaptive response was proposed to investigate the COVID-19 vaccination intention among Taiwanese university students. University students (n = 924; 575 males; mean age = 25.29 years) completed an online survey during January to February 2021. The proposed expanded PMT model was examined using structural equation modeling (SEM). The results showed that perceived knowledge was significantly associated with coping appraisal (standardized coefficient (�) = 0.820; p < 0.001), and coping appraisal was significantly associated with adaptive response (� = 0.852; p < 0.001), maladaptive response (� = 0.300; p < 0.001) and intention (� = 0.533; p = 0.009). Moreover, maladaptive response (� =
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RN Health > RN1007 MPH |
| Divisions: | University Portal > research center > sdh |
| Depositing User: | pr SDH research |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Feb 2022 05:34 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Feb 2022 05:34 |
| URI: | http://eprints.qums.ac.ir/id/eprint/11285 |
Actions (login required)
 |
View Item |
