Unrealistic optimism
Keywords:
unrealistic optimism, vaccinated, unvaccinatedAbstract
This study aimed to measure the unrealistic optimism of the two samples vaccinated and not vaccinated with Cov-19 virus. The researcher used a measure of unrealistic optimism (researcher’s construct), where the current study aimed at the existence of unrealistic optimism among the vaccinated with an arithmetic mean (94.7347) and a standard deviation (14.5068) and the presence of unrealistic optimism among the unvaccinated with an arithmetic mean (92.7721) and a standard deviation (11.80844). Statistically significant differences were also found, and the results showed statistically significant differences between males and females, vaccinated and unvaccinated.
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