Relationship Between Fear of COVID-19, Conspiracy Beliefs About Vaccines and Intention to Vaccinate Against COVID-19: A Cross-National Indirect Effect Model in 13 Latin American Countries

• Autores: Caycho-Rodríguez, Tomás, Tomás, José M., Yupanqui-Lorenzo, Daniel E., Valencia, Pablo D., Carbajal-León, Carlos, Vilca, Lindsey W., Ventura-León, José, Paredes-Angeles, Rubí, Arias Gallegos, Walter L., Reyes-Bossio, Mario, Delgado-Campusano, Mariel, Gallegos, Miguel, Rojas-Jara, Claudio, Polanco-Carrasco, Roberto, Cervigni, Mauricio, Martino, Pablo, Lobos-Rivera, Marlon Elías, Moreta-Herrera, Rodrigo, Palacios Segura, Diego Alejandro, Samaniego-Pinho, Antonio, Buschiazzo Figares, Andrés, Puerta-Cortés, Diana Ximena, Camargo, Andrés, Torales, Julio, Monge Blanco, J. Arkangel, González, Pedronel, Smith-Castro, Vanessa, Petzold-Rodriguez, Olimpia, Corrales-Reyes, Ibraín Enrique, Calderón, Raymundo, Matute Rivera, Wendy Yamilet, Ferrufino-Borja, Daniela, Ceballos-Vásquez, Paula, Muñoz-del-Carpio-Toia, Agueda, Palacios, Jorge, Burgos-Videla, Carmen, Florez León, Ana María Eduviges, Vergara, Ibeth, Vega, Diego, Shulmeyer, Marion K., Barria-Asenjo, Nicol A., Urrutia Rios, Hassell Tatiana, Lira Lira, Arelly Esther
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2023
• Institución: Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas
• Repositorio: UPC-Institucional
• Lenguaje: inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorioacademico.upc.edu.pe:10757/668602
• Enlace del recurso: http://hdl.handle.net/10757/668602
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: beliefs; conspiracy; COVID-19; fear; vaccination; Fear of COVID-19; Intention to be vaccinated; Conspiracy beliefs; Latin American countries; Non-probabilistic convenience sampling; Structural Equation Model; Cross-country invariance; Mediation model; Vaccine conspiracy beliefs Scale-COVID-19; Cross-national similarities

The present study explored the predictive capacity of fear of COVID-19 on the intention to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and the influence in this relationship of conspiracy beliefs as a possible mediating psychological variable, in 13 Latin American countries. A total of 5779 people recruited through non-probabilistic convenience sampling participated. To collect information, we used the Fear of COVID-19 Scale, Vaccine conspiracy beliefs Scale-COVID-19 and a single item of intention to vaccinate. A full a priori Structural Equation Model was used; whereas, cross-country invariance was performed from increasingly restricted structural models. The results indicated that, fear of COVID-19 positively predicts intention to vaccinate and the presence of conspiracy beliefs about COVID-19 vaccines. The latter negatively predicted intention to vaccinate against COVID-19. Besides, conspiracy beliefs about COVID-19 vaccines had an indirect effect on the relationship between fear of COVID-19 and intention to vaccinate against COVID-19 in the 13 countries assessed. Finally, the cross-national similarities of the mediational model among the 13 participating countries are strongly supported. The study is the first to test a cross-national mediational model across variables in a large number of Latin American countries. However, further studies with other countries in other regions of the world are needed.