How Much Collectivism Is There in Young Adults’ Collectivism? Vaccination Against COVID-19 in Serbia
Апстракт
Collectivism is consistently correlated with a positive attitude toward COVID-19
vaccination. Nevertheless, qualitative evidence on how collectivism benefits vaccination is scarce. Serbia has been transitioning from a socialist to a neoliberal
country for decades now, and its unique ideological context provokes different
forms of collectivism. Young adults are usually the ones who represent radical
political, non-neoliberal opposition, embracing collectivistic ideas. We selected a
group of self-declared collectivists from Serbia and encouraged them to express
their attitude toward vaccination. The final sample consisted of 16 narratives
(four female), written by 13 vaccinated and three unvaccinated participants. We
conducted two types of thematic analyses, resulting in 12 semantic (five collectivistic and seven individualistic) and two latent themes. The results unambiguously
showed the presence of individualism in the argumentation of self-declared collectivists, especially t...hose unvaccinated. We proposed the term Neoliberal collectivism to reach a better understanding of young people’s perspectives in the
specific socio-political context.
Кључне речи:
vaccination / COVID-19 / collectivism / individualism / neoliberalism / young adultsИзвор:
2023, 31, 4Издавач:
- Sage Journals
Финансирање / пројекти:
- This work was supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological development of the Republic of Serbia (contract number: 451-03-9/2021-14/200163)
Институција/група
Psihologija / PsychologyTY - JOUR AU - Janičić, Sonja AU - Ignjatović, Natalija AU - Vuletić, Teodora PY - 2023 UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/4914 AB - Collectivism is consistently correlated with a positive attitude toward COVID-19 vaccination. Nevertheless, qualitative evidence on how collectivism benefits vaccination is scarce. Serbia has been transitioning from a socialist to a neoliberal country for decades now, and its unique ideological context provokes different forms of collectivism. Young adults are usually the ones who represent radical political, non-neoliberal opposition, embracing collectivistic ideas. We selected a group of self-declared collectivists from Serbia and encouraged them to express their attitude toward vaccination. The final sample consisted of 16 narratives (four female), written by 13 vaccinated and three unvaccinated participants. We conducted two types of thematic analyses, resulting in 12 semantic (five collectivistic and seven individualistic) and two latent themes. The results unambiguously showed the presence of individualism in the argumentation of self-declared collectivists, especially those unvaccinated. We proposed the term Neoliberal collectivism to reach a better understanding of young people’s perspectives in the specific socio-political context. PB - Sage Journals T1 - How Much Collectivism Is There in Young Adults’ Collectivism? Vaccination Against COVID-19 in Serbia IS - 4 VL - 31 DO - 10.1177/11033088231179556 ER -
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Janičić, S., Ignjatović, N.,& Vuletić, T.. (2023). How Much Collectivism Is There in Young Adults’ Collectivism? Vaccination Against COVID-19 in Serbia. Sage Journals., 31(4). https://doi.org/10.1177/11033088231179556
Janičić S, Ignjatović N, Vuletić T. How Much Collectivism Is There in Young Adults’ Collectivism? Vaccination Against COVID-19 in Serbia. 2023;31(4). doi:10.1177/11033088231179556 .
Janičić, Sonja, Ignjatović, Natalija, Vuletić, Teodora, "How Much Collectivism Is There in Young Adults’ Collectivism? Vaccination Against COVID-19 in Serbia", 31, no. 4 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1177/11033088231179556 . .