PLOS ONE RESEARCH ARTICLE Trait reactance and trust in doctors as predictors of vaccination behavior, vaccine attitudes, and use of complementary and alternative medicine in parents of young children 1 2 2 2 2,3,4 Anna SoveriID *, Linda C. Karlsson , Otto MaÈki , Jan Antfolk , Otto Waris , 1,5,6 1,6,7 8 9,10 a1111111111 Hasse Karlsson , Linnea KarlssonID , Mikael Lindfelt , Stephan Lewandowsky a1111111111 a1111111111 1 FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, 2 Department of Psychology, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland, 3 Department of Child Psychiatry, a1111111111 Research Centre for Child Psychiatry, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, 4 INVEST Research Flagship, a1111111111 University of Turku, Turku, Finland, 5 Department of Psychiatry, Turku University Hospital and University of Turku, Turku, Finland, 6 Centre for Population Health Research, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland, 7 Department of Child Psychiatry, Turku University Hospital and University of Turku, Turku, Finland, 8 Department of Theological Ethics, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland, 9 School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, 10 School of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia OPEN ACCESS Citation: Soveri A, Karlsson LC, MaÈki O, Antfolk J, *
[email protected] Waris O, Karlsson H, et al. (2020) Trait reactance and trust in doctors as predictors of vaccination behavior, vaccine attitudes, and use of Abstract complementary and alternative medicine in parents of young children. PLoS ONE 15(7): e0236527. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236527 Editor: Peter Karl Jonason, Univeristy of Padova, Objective ITALY The aim of the present study was to investigate whether anti-vaccination attitudes and Received: April 7, 2020 behavior, and positive attitudes to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), are Accepted: July 7, 2020 driven by trait reactance and a distrust in medical doctors.