Table 2.

Motivations of anti-vaxxers. Regressions as modeled in Equation (1). The dependent variables are the three main principal components, a.PC1, a.PC2, and a.PC3, described in Table A1, corresponding to question O1: “What do you think about those who do not want to get vaccinated?”.

	a.PC1: Generic Distrust			a.PC2: Distrust of Vaccines			a.PC3: Self-Thinkers
	Coeff.	St. Dev.	p-Value	Coeff.	St. Dev.	p-Value	Coeff.	St. Dev.	p-Value
Gender: Males	0.259	0.111	0.020	0.004	0.115	0.973	−0.239	0.115	0.038
Gender: Other	−0.143	0.195	0.466	−0.062	0.203	0.759	−0.115	0.202	0.569
Age: 16–17	−0.186	0.122	0.129	0.116	0.126	0.358	0.280	0.126	0.026
Age: 18–19	−0.012	0.139	0.929	0.119	0.144	0.409	0.178	0.144	0.217
Mother’s ed.: HS	−0.272	0.124	0.029	−0.180	0.129	0.163	−0.091	0.128	0.480
Mother’s ed.: No HS	−0.423	0.130	0.001	−0.395	0.136	0.004	−0.209	0.134	0.119
Lyceum (ref: other HS)	-	-	-	−0.041	0.118	0.731	-	-	-
Social: Sometimes	−0.133	0.336	0.600	−0.372	0.263	0.158	−0.055	0.261	0.036
Social: Often	0.101	0.243	0.677	−0.255	0.252	0.312	−0.443	0.251	0.078
Vaccinated: Yes	0.698	0.185	0.000	0.357	0.192	0.064	−0.502	0.191	0.009
T1: Public good	0.132	0.153	0.388	0.230	0.158	0.146	−0.019	0.157	0.905
T2: Private good	0.112	0.155	0.471	0.072	0.161	0.652	0.108	0.160	0.500
T3: Severe adverse effects	0.220	0.154	0.155	0.308	0.160	0.055	−0.094	0.159	0.557
T4: Mild adverse effects	0.035	0.151	0.817	0.319	0.156	0.042	0.171	0.156	0.273
Intercept	−0.493	0.336	0.142	−0.091	0.353	0.798	0.876	0.346	0.012
No. obs.	395			395			395
R-squared	0.117			0.057			0.059
Adj. R-squared	0.087			0.022			0.027
F-test	3.879 ***			1.632 *			1.834 **

To improve readability, the p-values in italics correspond to coefficients that are significant at a 10% level. Significance level of F-test: * 10%, ** 5%, *** 1%.