Kicking against the pricks: vaccine sceptics have a different social orientation | Zendy

Jeroen Luyten | Zendy; Pieter Desmet | Zendy; Maria Veronica Dorgali | Zendy; Niel Hens | Zendy; Philippe Beutels | Zendy

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Kicking against the pricks: vaccine sceptics have a different social orientation

Author(s) -

Jeroen Luyten,

Pieter Desmet,

Maria Veronica Dorgali,

Niel Hens,

Philippe Beutels

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

european journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.056

H-Index - 91

eISSN - 1464-360X

pISSN - 1101-1262

DOI - 10.1093/eurpub/ckt080

Subject(s) - skepticism , collectivism , social psychology , population , psychology , context (archaeology) , vaccination , individualism , orientation (vector space) , sample (material) , medicine , political science , virology , geography , environmental health , mathematics , epistemology , philosophy , chemistry , geometry , archaeology , chromatography , law

In any country, part of the population is sceptical about the utility of vaccination. To develop successful vaccination programmes, it is important to study and understand the defining characteristics of vaccine sceptics. Research till now mainly focused either on the underlying motives of vaccine refusal, or on socio-demographic differences between vaccine sceptics and non-sceptics. It remained till now unexplored whether both groups differ in terms of basic psychological dispositions.

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