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Christian nationalism and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and uptake
- Source :
- Vaccine
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2021.
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Abstract
- Understanding COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and uptake is vital for informing public health interventions. Prior U.S. research has found that religious conservatism is positively associated with anti-vaccine attitudes. One of the strongest predictors of anti-vaccine attitudes in the U.S. is Christian nationalism-a U.S. cultural ideology that wants civic life to be permeated by their particular form of nationalist Christianity. However, there are no studies examining the relationship between Christian nationalism and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and uptake. Using a new nationally representative sample of U.S. adults, we find that Christian nationalism is one of the strongest predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and is negatively associated with having received or planning to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Since Christian nationalists make up approximately 20 percent of the population, these findings could have important implications for achieving herd immunity.
- Subjects :
- Adult
COVID-19 Vaccines
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Cross-sectional study
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Population
Conservatism
Article
Christianity
Herd immunity
Humans
education
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Vaccines
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General Veterinary
General Immunology and Microbiology
SARS-CoV-2
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
COVID-19
humanities
Nationalism
Cross-Sectional Studies
Infectious Diseases
religion
vaccine hesitancy
Molecular Medicine
Christian nationalism
Ideology
Psychology
Social psychology
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Details
- ISSN :
- 0264410X
- Volume :
- 39
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Vaccine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....def3a6893c72176ed598fe5fc7be4d04