Table 3. OLS Regression coefficients predicting political engagement offline.
Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 3 | Model 4 | |||||
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B | Beta | B | Beta | B | Beta | B | Beta | |
-1.8 | -2.917 | -3.124 | -3.83 | |||||
FB News Reliance | 0.305 | 0.076* | 0.103 | 0.026 | 0.052 | 0.013 | -0.018 | -0.005 |
Heavy FB user | 0.176 | 0.046 | 0.135 | 0.035 | 0.118 | 0.031 | 0.086 | 0.023 |
Uses FB Often | 0.009 | 0.059 | 0.011 | 0.076* | 0.011 | 0.078* | 0.012 | 0.083* |
Follows news sites and gov’t agencies on FB | 0.761 | 0.308* | 0.643 | 0.26* | 0.625 | 0.253* | 0.66 | 0.267* |
Political engagement on FB | 0.235 | 0.043 | 0.207 | 0.038 | 0.206 | 0.037 | 0.239 | 0.043 |
Attention to politics on FB | 0.199 | 0.109* | 0.022 | 0.012 | 0.021 | 0.012 | 0.017 | 0.009 |
FB Informs on politics | 0.073 | 0.018 | -0.023 | -0.006 | -0.024 | -0.006 | -0.058 | -0.014 |
FB friends with different views | -0.003 | -0.001 | -0.013 | -0.003 | -0.029 | -0.007 | -0.052 | -0.012 |
FB friends politically active | 0.099 | 0.027 | 0.079 | 0.022 | 0.088 | 0.024 | 0.065 | 0.018 |
Follows traditional news | -0.078 | -0.022 | -0.083 | -0.024 | -0.115 | -0.033 | ||
Interest in politics | 0.654 | 0.159* | 0.648 | 0.157* | 0.626 | 0.152* | ||
Discussing politics | 0.663 | 0.134* | 0.584 | 0.118* | 0.635 | 0.128* | ||
Political knowledge | 0.105 | 0.055 | 0.08 | 0.042 | ||||
Age | 0.017 | 0.047 | ||||||
Education | 0.092 | 0.051 | ||||||
Female | 0.06 | 0.012 | ||||||
Income group | 0.014 | 0.005 | ||||||
R2 | 0.228 | 0.261 | 0.263 | 0.27 | ||||
Adjusted R2 | 0.219 | 0.25 | 0.251 | 0.255 |
*p < .05
**p < .01
***p < .0001