Table 1 Overview of our study design and analyses
Analysis I | Analysis II | Analysis III | |
|---|---|---|---|
Research Questions | What are the effects of attitudes towards Waldorf education, homeopathy, mainstream medicine, and religious denomination on SARS-CoV-2 immunization status (number of doses)? | What are the main drivers of the decision to have at least one dose of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine? | Are attitudes towards routine pediatric immunization (MMR) similarly driven by the effects observed in Analysis I? |
Assumptions | |||
Dependent variable(s) | SARS-CoV-2 immunization status (number of vaccine doses) | Importance of SARS-CoV-2 immunization drivers: (i) voluntary considerations and (ii) external pressures | Attitudes towards pediatric immunization (MMR) |
Independent variables (main concepts) | • Attitudes towards Waldorf education • Attitudes towards homeopathy and mainstream medicine • Religious denomination | ||
Controls | • Political/ideological attitudes • Big 5 personality traits and degree of solidarity • Sociodemographic factors (age/gender/state (Bundesland)/education/household income) | ||
Population | Entire sample (n = 7391; German online survey) | Subset of the sample who had received at least 1 dose of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine (n = 6657) | Entire sample (n = 7391; German online survey) |
