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Feeling Inspired and Nostalgic: Associations between Media Context-Induced Positive Emotions and Behavioral Change among Vaccine-hesitant Individuals in the Late Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Duong, Hue Trong
Yachin, Mor
Massey, Zachary
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Campaigns to promote the COVID-19 vaccination messages to vaccine-hesitant consumers in the late stages of the pandemic are often met with resistance. This study explores a way to leverage positive emotions induced from entertainment media consumption to promote vaccination messages to this audience group. An online experiment was conducted with vaccine-hesitant consumers (N = 409). Participants viewed personally relevant entertainment music videos or mundane videos and vaccinated messages embedded in user-generated comments. Data revealed that feelings of inspiration and nostalgia induced from entertainment media consumption increased vaccination intentions via increased risk perceptions and reduced anti-vaccination attitudes. Social marketers should consider leveraging the combined effect of entertainment media-induced positive emotions and user-generated comments to motivate behavioral change among vaccine-hesitant individuals in the late stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. The present study adds to social marketing literature by showing mechanisms that positive emotions induced from entertainment social media consumption might lead to health behavioral change.

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Author accepted manuscript accepted 3 November 2023 and published by Emerald Publishing in Duong, H.T., Yachin, M. and Massey, Z.B. (2023), "Feeling inspired and nostalgic: associations between media context-induced positive emotions and behavioral change among vaccine-hesitant individuals in the late stages of the COVID-19 pandemic", Journal of Social Marketing, https://doi.org/10.1108/JSOCM-06-2023-0154
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2023-12-12
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Vaccine hesitancy, COVID-19, risk perceptions, entertainment media, positive emotions
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Duong, H.T., Yachin, M. and Massey, Z.B. (2023), "Feeling inspired and nostalgic: associations between media context-induced positive emotions and behavioral change among vaccine-hesitant individuals in the late stages of the COVID-19 pandemic", Journal of Social Marketing, https://doi.org/10.1108/JSOCM-06-2023-0154
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