Table A2.
Principal component analysis applied to question O2.
| Question O2: What do you think was the motivation for those people who do not want to get vaccinated? | |||
| Scale: From 1 (Strongly Agree) to 5 (Strongly Disagree) | |||
| Answer | b.PC1: Generic Distrust | b.PC2: Distrust of COVID-19 Vaccine | b.PC3: COVID-19 Deniers |
| They do not trust COVID-19 vaccine. | −0.710 | −0.198 | −0.410 |
| They think COVID-19 vaccine is not adequately tested. | −0.709 | −0.338 | −0.156 |
| They think COVID-19 vaccine long-term effects are not known enough. | −0.685 | −0.400 | −0.187 |
| They do not trust science and vaccines. | −0.660 | 0.249 | −0.414 |
| They do not trust politician, executives and managers of the pandemics. | −0.622 | −0.107 | - |
| They do not believe COVID-19 is a dangerous disease. | −0.474 | 0.639 | - |
| They believe COVID-19 is dangerous, but they do not trust vaccines. | −0.577 | −0.272 | 0.422 |
| They need more info about possible side effects. | −0.478 | −0.337 | 0.607 |
| They cannot accept each drug has possible side effects. | −0.614 | 0.481 | 0.209 |
| They think vaccine side effects are riskier than the chances of getting sick. | −0.678 | 0.407 | 0.207 |
| Eigenvalues | 3.922 | 1.381 | 1.025 |
| VAF | 39.218 | 13.813 | 10.250 |
| Cumulative VAF | 39.220 | 53.030 | 62.280 |