How socio-institutional contexts and cultural worldviews relate to COVID-19 acceptance rates: A representative study in Italy

Barbara Cordella, Fulvio Signore, Silvia Andreassi, Serena De Dominicis, Alessandro Gennaro, Salvatore Iuso, Terri Mannarini, Skaiste Kerusauskaite, Ankica Kosic, Matteo Reho, Alessia Rochira, Giulia Rocchi and Sergio Salvatore

Social Science & Medicine, 2023, vol. 320, issue C

Abstract: Despite its importance to counter the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination has raised hesitation in large segments of the population. This hesitation makes it important to understand the mechanisms underlying vaccine acceptance. To this end, the study adopts the Semiotic Cultural Psychology Theory, holding that social behaviors – and therefore, vaccination acceptance – depend on the cultural meanings in terms of which people interpret the social world.

Keywords: Sensemaking; Semiosis; Vaccine hesitancy; Political values; Trust in institutions; Cultural psychology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115671

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