Table 3.

Pearson product–moment correlations between independent variables (N = 1102).

Variable	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Knowledge (1)	1
Environmental concern (2)	0.06 *	1
Food technology neophobia (3)	−0.13 ***	0.04	1
Health consciousness (4)	0.05	0.14 ***	0.18 ***	1
Perceived benefit (5)	0.44 ***	0.04	−0.24 ***	0.01	1
Perceived risk (6)	−0.21 ***	0.11 ***	0.45 ***	0.22 ***	−0.42 ***	1
Subjective social norm (7)	0.34 ***	0.01	−0.23 ***	0.06 *	0.62 ***	−0.41 ***	1
Attitude (8)	0.37 ***	−0.03	−0.30 ***	−0.05	0.68 ***	−0.53 ***	0.66 ***	1

Note: * p < 0.05, *** p < 0.001. 0.01–0.09 = Negligible association; 0.10–0.29 = Low association; 0.30–0.49 = Moderate association; 0.50–0.69 = Substantial association; 0.70 or higher = Very strong association [82].