Table 2.

Descriptive statistics and intercorrelations

N = 808	Risk perception	Generalized affect	Cause knowledge	Personal experience	Mean	Standard deviation
Risk perception	(0.96)				4.83	1.36
Generalized affect	0.54***	(0.86)			5.33	1.20
Cause knowledge	0.09*	0.22***	(0.90)		6.24	1.92
Personal experience	0.22***	0.08*	−0.02	(1.0)	N.A	N.A

Note: Personal experience is a dichotomous variable (1 = experience, 0 = no experience). Measures are coded so that higher scores reflect more of the construct. Reliability scores (α) are provided in parentheses along the main diagonal.

N.A, not applicable.

^**p < .05;

**p < .01;

^***p < .001.