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- COVID‐19 vaccination acceptance: A case of interplay between political and health dimensionsPublication . DA SILVA LIMA, KALINE; Bú, Emerson Do; Dantas Silva, Washington Allysson; P. Miranda, Mariana; Pereira, C.R.Vaccines are essential for the eradication of diseases. Yet for many reasons, individuals do not embrace them completely. In the COVID- 19 pandemic and with the possibility of the Brazilian population’s immunization against the disease, both political and health- related dimensions might have had a role in individual COVID- 19 vaccination acceptance. In two studies (n = 974), we tested the hypothesis that participants’ vaccination acceptance is related to their past vote in the 2018 Brazilian presidential election (being or not being a Jair Bolsonaro voter) and their different levels of perceived vulnerability to disease (PVD). We further tested whether Bolsonaro’s opposition or ambiguous messages towards vaccination (vs. control) increased vaccination rejection among those who have (vs. have not) voted for him and who are low (vs. high) in PVD. Results show that Bolsonaro (vs. non- Bolsonaro) voters accepted less vaccination, with higher rejection rates when participants expressed low (vs. high) PVD. Also, when primed either with Bolsonaro’s opposed or ambiguous messages towards COVID- 19 vaccination, such participants accepted less vaccines (vs. participants primed with neutral information). These findings are the first to show that the COVID- 19 vaccine acceptance is related to their past vote and leadership influence but also different levels of perceived vulnerability to disease.
- Relational job characteristics and well-being of Brazilian K-12 teachersPublication . Klein, Natan; Costa, Carlos; Pereira, Cícero Roberto; Chambel, M.J.; Marôco, JoãoA teacher’s relationship with students can be a source of more than stress. The attributes of relational jobs either promote positive (e.g., work engagement) or inhibit negative (e.g., exhaustion) psychological states that constitute potential predictors of teachers’ general well-being (e.g., health perception). The present study tests hypotheses regarding the relationships between the psychological efects of relational job characteristics and teachers’ work-related and context-free well-being indicators. Preschool, primary, and secondary Brazilian school teachers (n=2205) responded to a cross-sectional survey. Data were analyzed by multiple mediator structural equation modeling. The psychological efects of relational job characteristics predicted exhaustion, engagement, and health perception. Findings support indirect efects on health perception of exhaustion and engagement. Data were interpreted according to the job demands-resources model, where the relational job characteristics constitute essential resources that foster work engagement, diminish burnout, and indirectly afect more generalized well-being states such as general health. Possible explanations for the relationships are discussed.
- Validation of the revised Belief in a Just World Scale based on Popular SayingsPublication . Linhares, Layanne Vieira; Torres, Ana Raquel Rosas; Pereira, Cícero RobertoAbstract: The development of measures that assess individual differences in the Belief in a Just World plays an important role in advancing research in this area. The intent of this article was to validate a new version of the Belief in a Just World Scale based on Popular Sayings (BJWPS), proposing that this measure may be an alternative to the original scale. For this, two studies were developed: Study 1 (N=160) aimed to presenting psychometric evidence for a new version of the BJWPS scale through an exploratory factor analysis. Study 2 (N=144) aimed to verify the goodness-of-fit of the proposed measurement model using confirmatory factor analysis. Results of the two studies indicated a single-factor structure that assesses BJW, which corroborates the theoretical frameworks of the BJW scales. Together, the results allow us to conclude that the BJWPS presented satisfactory psychometric indexes.