Document Type : Scientific Research
Authors
1 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psycholoyg, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran
2 B.A., Department of Psychology, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran.
3 Associate Professor, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.
4 M.A., Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
Objective: The Covid-19 virus changes over time and is still present in the world. Therefore, the rate of acceptance of the vaccine and the factors affecting it should be investigated. The aim of this study was to determine the mediating role of personality traits in the relationship between the acceptance rate of corona vaccine and anxiety, depression and stress during the covid-19 pandemic. Method: The current research was descriptive-correlation and structural equation modeling. The statistical population included all adults aged 18 to 60 in Tehran, of which 388 (81 men and 257 women) were selected by the simple random method. To collect data, Hexaco short questionnaire, depression, anxiety and stress questionnaire and the knowledge, attitude, application and concerns questionnaire of the Covid-19 vaccine were used. Then the data were analyzed with SPSS (version 24) and AMOSE (version 24) software. Results: The findings showed that anxiety, depression, and stress have an inverse and significant effect on vaccine resistance or acceptance (β=0.15 and P=0.013). This finding was different from the results of some other researches. It was expected that the acceptance rate of the vaccine would increase with the increase of fear, anxiety and stress. However, in our study it decreased. On the other hand, the results of this research showed that anxiety, depression and stress have a positive and significant effect on personality traits (β=0.41 and P<0.001). Also, the resistance or acceptance of the Covid-19 vaccine was related to anxiety, depression, and stress, and this relationship was significant and inverse and consistent with the results of other studies. Another finding of this research indicated the existence of a relationship between personality traits and vaccine resistance or acceptance (β=0.13 and P=0.021), the results of which were not consistent with some other studies. Conclusion: Generally, the results indicate that the variable of personality traits can play a mediating role (P=0.038) in relation to anxiety, depression, stress resistance or vaccine acceptance. In fact, some personality traits such as extroversion, agreeableness, openness to experience and conscientiousness had less anxiety and stress. Therefore, they managed themselves better during the Covid-19 crisis. On the other hand, people who had higher anxiety and stress were more biased towards information in crisis situations and resisted accepting the Covid-19 vaccine. However, resistance to accepting the Covid-19 vaccine was different in different people. In fact, according to this research, people who had higher stress, anxiety and depression usually had to resist accepting the Covid-19 vaccine. But if they were part of agreeable and negative excitable personality traits, they would show willingness to receive the Covid-19 vaccine. On the other hand, extroverts, who were expected to be willing to accept the Covid-19 vaccine, resisted accepting it.
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