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To fill this gap, the Stimulus-Organism-Response framework aims to clarify the social media exposure mission in acknowledging risk perception and triggering preventive attitudes and behaviors toward COVID-19 and general vaccination.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The authors conducted an explanatory-predictive study on 480 Romanian students, using partial least squares structural equation modeling, and performed model evaluation, multi-group, model selection, and importance-performance map analyses.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Findings<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The study provides insights in understanding significant relationships and drivers explaining and predicting attitudes towards vaccines. The main relationships are between fear and risk perception; risk and preventive attitudes and behaviors; and vaccination degree and attitudes to vaccines. The most important factor is the vaccination degree and media exposure is the most performant.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Practical implications<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Developing and applying regulations and communication strategies for quality mass information may positively increase attitudes toward vaccines by indirectly enforcing the main drivers.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Social implications<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Organizations, authorities, and opinion leaders must have a coherent supportive presence in media.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This study filled the literature gap by building a generic theoretical and empirical proven framework that investigates the mediated effect towards vaccines of all media types by COVID-19 experience and vaccination degree.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Peer review<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      The peer review history for this article is available at:\n                      <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" ext-link-type=\"uri\" xlink:href=\"https:\/\/publons.com\/publon\/10.1108\/OIR-11-2021-0621\">https:\/\/publons.com\/publon\/10.1108\/OIR-11-2021-0621<\/jats:ext-link>\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/oir-11-2021-0621","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,23]],"date-time":"2022-05-23T09:37:22Z","timestamp":1653298642000},"page":"138-161","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":19,"title":["Social media exposure assessment: influence on attitudes toward generic vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"47","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5360-3874","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dan-Andrei","family":"Sitar-Taut","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0277-9700","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Daniel","family":"Mican","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"140","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,24]]},"reference":[{"issue":"3","key":"key2023011802355831100_ref001","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1116","DOI":"10.1108\/ITP-10-2020-0719","article-title":"Acceptance of protection technology in a time of fear: the case of COVID-19 exposure detection apps","volume":"35","year":"2022","journal-title":"Information Technology and People"},{"key":"key2023011802355831100_ref002","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","article-title":"Does e-government help shape citizens\u2019 engagement during the COVID-19 crisis? 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