The COVID-19 pandemic has presented huge challenges for communities across the world. Vaccines offer the best hope for controlling its deleterious effects, but not everybody is willing to be vaccinated, so it is important to explore variables that might predict vaccination willingness. The present study addressed this by drawing upon the Social Identity Approach, which posits that people's membership of social groups is consequential for their thoughts and behaviour. Specifically, it was predicted that people's strength of identification with their local community (a social group that came to particular prominence during the pandemic) would positively predict their willingness to engage in community-related prosocial normative behaviour (i.e., their perceived sense of duty, as a community member, to get vaccinated) and that this, in turn, would predict higher levels of vaccination willingness. Participants (N = 130) completed an online survey, which supported the hypothesized mediation model, even after controlling for subjective neighbourhood socio-economic status and age (two variables that are particularly likely to impact upon vaccination willingness). To our knowledge, this is the first study to apply Social Identity Approach principles to the study of COVID-19 vaccination willingness. The implications of the findings for governments' efforts to boost vaccine uptake are discussed. Please refer to the Supplementary Material section to find this article's Community and Social Impact Statement.

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为我们做这件事：社区认同通过感知对社区的责任感来预测接受 COVID-19 疫苗接种的意愿

COVID-19 大流行给世界各地的社区带来了巨大挑战。疫苗为控制其有害影响提供了最好的希望，但并不是每个人都愿意接种疫苗，因此探索可能预测疫苗接种意愿的变量很重要。本研究通过利用社会认同方法解决了这一问题，该方法假定人们的社会群体成员身份对其思想和行为产生影响。具体而言，据预测，人们对当地社区（在大流行期间特别突出的社会群体）的认同强度将积极预测他们参与与社区相关的亲社会规范行为的意愿（即，他们感知到的责任感，作为社区成员，接种疫苗），而这反过来，将预测更高水平的疫苗接种意愿。参加者（N  = 130）完成了一项在线调查，该调查支持假设的中介模型，即使在控制了主观的社区社会经济地位和年龄（这两个变量特别可能影响疫苗接种意愿）之后。据我们所知，这是第一项将社会认同方法原则应用于 COVID-19 疫苗接种意愿研究的研究。讨论了研究结果对政府促进疫苗接种的努力的影响。请参阅补充材料部分以查找本文的社区和社会影响声明。