Religiosity and University Students’ Attitudes About Vaccination Against COVID-19

This journal article by Jelena Ilić Petrović, Uroš V Šuvaković, and Ivko A Nikolić examines factors, including religion, driving hesitancy among students in Serbia to vaccinate against COVID-19. The researchers conducted an online snowball sample covering 361 students of the teacher education faculties in Serbia. The questionnaire consisted of questions referring to the attitudes about vaccination and the questionnaire about religiosity. Based on the study, the researchers believe non-vaccination of students is to a larger extent the consequence of superstition and succumbing to (dis)information on social media than the university students’ religious beliefs, although it should certainly not be ignored as a factor, which is corroborated by the results they obtained.