Table 1 OLS regression predicting anti-vaccine conspiracy beliefs using pooled data.

From: Are COVID-19 conspiracy theories for losers? Probing the interactive effect of voting choice and emotional distress on anti-vaccine conspiracy beliefs

 

Anti-Vaccine Conspiracy Beliefs (Combined)

Tracking and Controlling the Population (Conspiracy Theory 1)

Making Money for Pharmaceutical Companies (Conspiracy Theory 2)

 

Model 1

Model 2

Model 3

Model 4

Model 5

Model 6

Voting for opposition parties

0.077***

0.081***

0.073***

0.077***

0.071***

0.074***

Emotional distress

0.312***

0.362***

0.275***

0.327***

0.297***

0.335***

Voting for opposition parties * Emotional distress

 

−0.075***

 

−0.078***

 

−0.057*

Trust in government

−0.084***

−0.078***

−0.054*

−0.047*

−0.099***

−0.095***

Conspiracy mentality

0.302***

0.295***

0.262***

0.254***

0.298***

0.292***

Authoritarianism

0.238***

0.241***

0.212***

0.216***

0.231***

0.234***

News use of social media

0.067***

0.062**

0.086***

0.081***

0.033

0.029

News use of traditional media

−0.009

−0.007

−0.004

−0.001

−0.019

−0.017

Feeling of hope

0.004

-0.001

−0.008

−0.013

0.022

0.018

Perceived threat

−0.063***

−0.058***

−0.068***

−0.063***

−0.045*

−0.041*

Observations

2147

2147

2176

2176

2161

2161

R2

0.491

0.494

0.426

0.429

0.421

0.423

  1. Entries are standardized coefficients. Emotional distress was centred by local means before it was used to create the interaction term. Gender, age, education, social class, and country dummy variables were controlled.
  2. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001
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