Table 1.
Sample characteristics.
| f | % | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | Male | 696 | 51.5 |
| Female | 654 | 48.5 | |
| Education | Incomplete primary education | 3 | 0.2 |
| Primary education | 51 | 3.8 | |
| Lower or secondary vocational education | 203 | 15.0 | |
| Secondary professional education | 476 | 35.2 | |
| General secondary education | 208 | 15.4 | |
| Higher vocational education, post-secondary education (previous higher education, 2 years + diploma) | 83 | 6.2 | |
| Higher vocational education, post-secondary education (former VS - 3 years, 1st Bologna degree) | 107 | 7.9 | |
| University degree (4-can be 6 years + diploma) | 123 | 9.1 | |
| Bologna Master's degree | 42 | 3.1 | |
| Specialisation | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Master's degree | 25 | 1.9 | |
| Doctorate | 19 | 1.4 | |
| Economic situation | Very difficult | 53 | 3.9 |
| Quite difficult | 175 | 13.0 | |
| Neither difficult nor easy | 523 | 38.8 | |
| Quite easy | 365 | 27.0 | |
| Very easy | 220 | 16.3 | |
| Age | M | SD | |
| 47.48 | 15.44 |
[i] Note: Economic situation was assessed using the following question: “Considering the total income of your household (including all income sources of all household members), how difficult or easy was it for your household to cover all essential expenses during the past two months?” Responses were recorded on a 5-point scale ranging from very difficult to very easy, with higher values indicating a more favourable perceived economic situation.
Table 2.
Measuring items for 7C vaccination readiness scale.
| Components | Item |
|---|---|
| Confidence | 1. Vaccination side effects occur rarely and are not severe for me. |
| 2. Political decisions about vaccinations are scientifically grounded. | |
| 3. I am convinced that appropriate authorities do only allow effective and safe vaccines. | |
| Complacency | 4. I do not need vaccinations because infectious diseases do not hit me hard. (R) |
| 5. Vaccination is unnecessary for me because I rarely get ill anyway. (R) | |
| 6. I get vaccinated because it is too risky to get infected. | |
| Constraints | 7. I make sure to receive the most important vaccinations in good time. |
| 8. Vaccinations are so important to me that I prioritise getting vaccinated over other things. | |
| 9. I sometimes miss out on vaccinations because vaccinations are bothersome. (R) | |
| Calculation | 10. I get vaccinated when I do not see any disadvantages for me. (R) |
| 11. I only get vaccinated when the benefits clearly outweigh the risks. (R) | |
| 12. For each vaccine, I carefully consider whether I need it. (R) | |
| Collective responsibility | 13. I also get vaccinated because protecting vulnerable risk groups is important to me. |
| 14. I see vaccination as a collective task against the spread of diseases. | |
| 15. I also get vaccinated because I am thereby protecting other people. | |
| Compliance | 16. It should be possible to exclude people from public activities (e.g., concerts) when they are not vaccinated against a specific disease. |
| 17. The health authorities should use all possible means to achieve high vaccination rates. | |
| 18. It should be possible to sanction people who do not follow the vaccination recommendations by health authorities. | |
| Conspiracy | 19. Vaccinations cause diseases and allergies that are more serious than the diseases they are supposed to protect from. (R) |
| 20. Health authorities knuckle under to the power and influence of pharmaceutical companies. (R) | |
| 21. Vaccinations contain chemicals in toxic doses. (R) |
[i] Note: Geiger et al. (8).
Table 3.
Convergent validity of the 7C vaccination readiness scale.
Table 4.
Criterion validity of the 7C and 5C vaccination readiness scales.
| 7C | 5C | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Model | β | p | β | p |
| G | 0.662 | < 0.001 | 0.654 | < 0.001 |
| Complacency | 0.069 | 0.960 | 0.056 | 0.046 |
| Constraints | 0.520 | 0.566 | −0.230 | 0.001 |
| Calculation | 0.128 | < 0.001 | 0.174 | < 0.001 |
| Collective responsibility | 0.003 | 0.914 | 0.034 | 0.325 |
| Compliance | 0.124 | < 0.001 | ||
| Conspiracy | 0.007 | 0.819 | ||
| R2 | 0.745 | 0.515 | ||