University Youth Trust in Vaccination and Preventive Health Awareness against the Emerging of Corona Virus COVID-19 According to the Levels of Psychological Resilience and Subjective Vitality

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Mental Health Department, Faculty of Education, Tafahnal-Ashraf, Al-Azhar University

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 The current research aimed to verify the extent of variation of university youth trust in vaccination(UYTV) and preventive health awareness(PHA) against covid-19 according to gender, place of residence, levels of psychological resilience and subjective vitality. The measures were administered on (518) students. The results for (UYTV) revealed that there were statistically significant differences in favour of the hypothetical average of readiness for vaccination and the benefits of vaccination, and in favour of the real average of not being afraid of vaccination risks and procedures for enhancing trust in vaccination in addition to the total score. Statistically significant differences were found in not being afraid of vaccination risks in favour of females and readiness for vaccination in favour of males, however. Additionally, statistically significant differences were found in not being afraid of vaccination risks in favour of city residents and procedures for enhancing trust in vaccination in favour of the village residents. Besides, there were no differences due to the interaction between psychological resilience and subjective vitality. As for (PHA), results revealed that there were statistically significant differences in favour of the real average. Besides, there were statistically significant differences in preventive health knowledge and the total score in favour of  males. In addition, there were no statistically significant differences due to the place of residence. However, there were statistically significant differences in the dimensions of preventive health knowledge and the preventive trend, and the total score due to the interaction between psychological resilience and subjective vitality. The results were discussed.
 
 

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