Political Ideology and Trust in Government to Ensure Vaccine Safety: Using a U.S. Survey to Explore the Role of Political Trust
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Literature Review and Hypothesis
2.1.1. Political Ideology and Government-Ensured Vaccine Safety
Hypothesis 1.Liberals will be positively associated with trust in the government to ensure vaccine safety.
Hypothesis 2.Conservatives will be negatively associated with trust in the government to ensure vaccine safety.
2.1.2. Political Trust and Its Moderation of the Link between Political Ideology and Trust in Government to Ensure Vaccine Safety
Hypothesis 3.Political trust will be positively associated with trust in the government to ensure vaccine safety.
Hypothesis 4.Political trust will moderate the relationship between conservatives and trust in the government to ensure vaccine safety. Thus, the degree of the negative relationship between conservatives and trust in the government to ensure safety is reduced as the level of political trust increases.
2.2. Data Management
2.3. Variables
2.3.1. Trust in Government to Ensure Vaccine Safety
2.3.2. Political Ideology
2.3.3. Political Trust
2.3.4. Control Variables
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Variables | N | Mean | SD | Min. | Max. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Trust in government to ensure vaccine safety | 473 | 2.27 | 0.65 | 1 | 3 |
Liberal | 473 | 0.36 | 0.48 | 0 | 1 |
Conservative | 473 | 0.33 | 0.47 | 0 | 1 |
Political trust | 473 | 1.55 | 0.55 | 1 | 3 |
Distrust in scientific community | 473 | 1.54 | 0.62 | 1 | 3 |
Age | 473 | 52.53 | 16.73 | 19 | 89 |
Female | 473 | 0.54 | 0.50 | 0 | 1 |
White | 473 | 0.82 | 0.39 | 0 | 1 |
Education | 473 | 14.88 | 2.93 | 0 | 20 |
Income | 473 | 18.51 | 6.05 | 1 | 26 |
Variables | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
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1 | Trust in government to ensure vaccine safety | 1 | |||||||||
2 | Liberal | 0.13 | 1 | ||||||||
3 | Conservative | −0.16 | −0.53 | 1 | |||||||
4 | Political trust | 0.30 | 0.20 | −0.20 | 1 | ||||||
5 | Distrust in scientific community | −0.36 | −0.28 | 0.16 | −0.33 | 1 | |||||
6 | Age | 0.15 | −0.17 | 0.17 | −0.10 | 0.04 * | 1 | ||||
7 | Female | −0.11 | −0.04 * | −0.09 * | 0.00 * | 0.16 | 0.01 * | 1 | |||
8 | White | 0.02 * | −0.06 * | 0.16 | −0.10 | −0.10 | 0.05 * | −0.01 * | 1 | ||
9 | education | 0.13 | 0.15 | −0.03 * | 0.02 * | −0.28 | 0.03 * | −0.17 | 0.09 * | 1 | |
10 | Income | 0.08 * | 0.08 * | 0.02 * | 0.03 * | −0.21 | −0.02 * | −0.15 | 0.15 | 0.46 | 1 |
Trust in Government to Ensure Vaccine Safety | ||||
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Model 1 | Model 2 | |||
Coef. | (S.E.) | Coef. | (S.E.) | |
Liberal | −0.19 | 0.17 | −0.51 | 0.48 |
Conservative | −0.43 | 0.17 ** | −1.46 | 0.49 *** |
Political trust | 0.45 | 0.14 *** | 0.16 | 0.20 |
Liberal × Political trust | 0.21 | 0.28 | ||
Conservative × Political trust | 0.67 | 0.32 ** | ||
Distrust in scientific community | −0.64 | 0.13 *** | −0.62 | 0.13 *** |
Age | 0.02 | 0.00 *** | 0.02 | 0.00 *** |
Female | −0.20 | 0.14 | −0.21 | 0.14 |
White | −0.12 | 0.17 | −0.12 | 0.17 |
Education | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.03 |
Income | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.01 |
τ1 | −0.84 | 0.60 | −1.31 | 0.61 |
τ2 | 1.05 | 0.61 | 0.60 | 0.61 |
Log Likelihood | −390.79 | −386.65 | ||
Wald Test | 88.11 | 92.64 | ||
Number of Cases | 473 |
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Lim J, Moon K-K. Political Ideology and Trust in Government to Ensure Vaccine Safety: Using a U.S. Survey to Explore the Role of Political Trust. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2023; 20(5):4459. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20054459
Chicago/Turabian StyleLim, Jaeyoung, and Kuk-Kyoung Moon. 2023. "Political Ideology and Trust in Government to Ensure Vaccine Safety: Using a U.S. Survey to Explore the Role of Political Trust" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20, no. 5: 4459. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20054459