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Table 2 Means and SD of attitudinal and psychosocial factors between adolescents and parents

From: Psychosocial and organizational barriers and facilitators of meningococcal vaccination (MenACWY) acceptance among adolescents and parents during the Covid-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional survey

Factors

Adolescents (n = 592)

M ± SD

Parents (n = 1197)

M ± SD

t-value

ρ -value

Effect size (Hedges’ g)

Attitude

4.37 ± 0.610

4.41 ± 0.576

− 1.34

0.179

− 0.07

Social norm

4.15 ± 0.582

3.49 ± 0.552

23.10

0.000

1.17

Perceived control

 Perceived capacity

3.66 ± 1.045

3.91 ± 0.836

− 5.09

0.000

− 0.27

 Perceived autonomy

3.65 ± 1.087

4.03 ± 0.937

− 7.22

0.000

− 0.38

Decisional uncertainty

4.28 ± 0.709

4.22 ± 0.586

1.84

0.066

0.09

Anticipated negative affect

3.26 ± 0.986

3.70 ± 0.799

− 9.32

0.000

− 0.51

Knowledge

3.54 ± 1.009

4.08 ± 0.893

− 11.24

0.000

− 0.58

General vaccination beliefs

4.08 ± 0.561

3.98 ± 0.593

3.19

0.001

0.17

Risk perception

 Severity disease

3.91 ± 0.852

4.25 ± 0.732

− 8.42

0.000

− 0.44

 Susceptibility disease

2.34 ± 1.057

2.68 ± 0.958

− 6.59

0.000

− 0.34

 Susceptibility side effects

2.08 ± 0.968

2.33 ± 0.854

− 5.39

0.000

− 0.28

Outcome expectations

3.98 ± 0.717

3.76 ± 0.645

6.13

0.000

0.33

Moral norm

 For oneself

3.17 ± 1.195

3.75 ± 0.912

− 10.38

0.000

− 0.57

 For others

3.26 ± 1.071

3.33 ± 1.003

− 1.47

0.142

− 0.07

Omission bias

1.31 ± 0.668

1.37 ± 0.613

− 1.74

0.083

− 0.09

  1. mean, SD standard deviation