. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Feb 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Health Commun. 2020 Jan 26;25(2):105–114. doi: 10.1080/10810730.2020.1712500

Table 2.

Comparison of Intervention Effects on Theoretical Mediators across the Conditions at 6-month Follow-up

	Media realism	Expectancy (positive)	Expectancy (negative)	Collective efficacy	Issue involvement
Argument	1.99^a (1.12)	3.88^a (1.26)	5.58^a (0.91)	5.55^a (0.97)	4.86^a (1.52)
Story	2.15^b (1.14)	3.71^b (1.12)	5.59^b (0.88)	5.45 (1.07)	4.56 (1.46)
Control	3.24^ab (1.14)	4.67^ab (0.85)	4.97^ab (0.86)	5.22^a (1.13)	4.37^a (1.65)

Notes. Numbers are means and standard deviations. Means sharing the same subscripts are significantly different at Tukey adjusted p < .05.