Table 4.

Correlates of perceived SARS severity, vulnerability, perceived threat and comparative vulnerability; unstandardized regression coefficients (B) and p values derived from linear regression analyses (n = 3064)

	Seriousness		Vulnerability		Threat		Vulnerability compared to other people
	B	p	B	p	B	p	B	p
Countrya		<0.001		<0.001		<0.001		<0.001
Denmark	8.40		2.32		2.95		−0.76
Poland	8.16		3.23		3.50		−0.25
The Netherlands	8.23		2.96		3.37		−0.30
Great Britain	8.05		2.68		3.11		−0.55
Spain	7.94		2.83		3.23		−0.29
China	8.09		2.70		3.14		−0.78
Hong Kong	8.01		3.01		3.34		−0.47
Singapore	6.83		2.57		2.73		−0.97
Sex (male is the reference)	0.57	0.000	0.07	0.090	0.17	0.000	0.08	0.014
Age	0.00	0.237	0.00	0.875	0.00	0.303	0.00	0.300
Highest education	−0.14	0.001	−0.08	0.001	−0.07	0.000	−0.01	0.669
Urbanization	−0.07	0.118	−0.02	0.365	−0.04	0.059	−0.02	0.261
Amount of info during SARS outbreak	0.05	0.155	0.03	0.188	0.03	0.090	0.04	0.019
SARS knowledge score	0.16	0.010	0.05	0.170	0.07	0.016	0.04	0.134

^aThe p value for country stands for the overall significance of the differences between countries