COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs and vaccinations: A conceptual replication study in Turkey

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dc.authoridErtan, Irem/0000-0001-5650-0985
dc.authoridPALEARI, Francesca Giorgia/0000-0002-6752-0911
dc.authoridpivetti, monica/0000-0002-8378-2911
dc.contributor.authorPivetti, Monica
dc.contributor.authorPaleari, Francesca-Giorgia
dc.contributor.authorErtan, Irem
dc.contributor.authorDi Battista, Silvia
dc.contributor.authorUlukok, Esra
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-21T16:37:14Z
dc.date.available2025-01-21T16:37:14Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.departmentKırıkkale Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractPivetti et al. (2021a; 2021b) examined links between COVID-related conspiracy beliefs and acceptance of vaccinations in Italy and Finland in 2020. They found that moral purity negatively predicted confidence in science, whereas political orientation predicted COVID-related conspiracy beliefs. Confidence in science, general conspiracy beliefs, and COVID-related conspiracy beliefs were found to negatively predict support for governmental restrictions and attitudes towards vaccines, and positively predict perceptions of informational contamination. Finally, attitudes towards vaccines in general strongly predicted attitudes towards the COVID-19 vaccine. The current research seeks to replicate these findings conceptually on a predominately Muslim sample (N = 570, M age = 26.69, 69.8% females) in Turkey in 2021, when the COVID vaccines were widely available. Measures of religiosity and left, center, and right political orientations were added to the original instrument. Hypothesized serial mediational models were tested using structural equation modelling. Results revealed that left and center political orientations positively predicted COVID-related conspiracy beliefs and confidence in science. Religiosity was negatively related to confidence in science. Confidence in science and COVID-related conspiracy beliefs predicted general attitudes toward vaccines. Conspiracy beliefs predicted COVID-related conspiracy beliefs, which in turn negatively predicted support for government restrictions and positively predicted distrust in mainstream media. Attitudes towards vaccines were strongly and positively related to attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccines.[This paper was added to the Special Issue on Conspiracy Theories about Infectious Diseases in a post-hoc manner. Online publishing allows the addition of new papers to a published special issue, thereby permitting a special issue to grow.]
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/18344909231170097
dc.identifier.issn1834-4909
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85159139775
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/18344909231170097
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12587/24431
dc.identifier.volume17
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000985934100001
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSage Publications Ltd
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Pacific Rim Psychology
dc.relation.publicationcategoryDiğer
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_20241229
dc.subjectattitudes towards COVID-19 vaccine; confidence in science; conspiracy beliefs; religion; political orientation
dc.titleCOVID-19 conspiracy beliefs and vaccinations: A conceptual replication study in Turkey
dc.typeEditorial

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