Table 2 OLS regression predicting anti-vaccine conspiracy beliefs in Singapore.

	Anti-Vaccine Conspiracy Beliefs (Combined)		Tracking and Controlling the Population (Conspiracy Theory 1)		Making Money for Pharmaceutical Companies (Conspiracy Theory 2)
	Model 7	Model 8	Model 9	Model 10	Model 11	Model 12
Voting for opposition parties	0.006	0.008	−0.019	-0.018	0.037	0.040
Emotional distress	0.28***	0.296***	0.23***	0.239***	0.269***	0.295***
Voting for opposition parties * Emotional distress		−0.028		−0.016		−0.045
Trust in government	−0.124**	−0.125**	−0.093*	−0.093*	−0.13**	−0.132**
Conspiracy mentality	0.367***	0.366***	0.284***	0.283***	0.377***	0.375***
Authoritarianism	0.221***	0.224***	0.219***	0.220***	0.187***	0.191***
News use of social media	−0.028	−0.03	0.01	0.009	−0.065+	−0.068+
News use of traditional media	−0.002	−0.001	−0.007	−0.006	−0.002	0.001
Feeling of hope	0.047	0.046	0.029	0.028	0.059+	0.056
Perceived threat	−0.077*	−0.078*	−0.04	−0.04	−0.095**	−0.095**
Observations	541	541	544	544	547	547
R²	0.453	0.454	0.341	0.341	0.426	0.427

Entries are standardized coefficients. Emotional distress was centred by local means before it was used to create the interaction term. Gender, age, education, and social class were controlled.
+p < 0.1, *p < 0.05. **p < 0.01. ***p < 0.001

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