Publications by authors named "Anastasiia Shyroka"
Article Synopsis
- - The study investigates how factors like vaccination status, fear of vaccination, anxiety, alexithymia (difficulty identifying emotions), and type D personality (negative feelings and social inhibition) influence vaccination rates among a diverse group of university students from multiple countries.
- - Using various psychological scales, researchers found that cognitive symptoms related to fear of vaccination and negative emotional states were significantly associated with lower vaccination rates, with cognitive fear being the strongest predictor.
- - The results suggest that while fear of vaccination has consistent links across cultures, interventions must be tailored to specific cultural contexts to effectively increase vaccination rates.
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic had a meaningful impact on several areas of human activity. With respect to psychological assessment, the requirements to study the fear of vaccination as a means to diminish negative behaviour towards vaccination had been reported. This study aimed to evaluate the factorial invariance of the six-item Vaccination Fear Scale (VFS-6) across individuals and cultures.
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