Table 3.

Correlations of government intervention, risk perception, and the public’s adoption of protective action recommendations (PARs).

Variables	1	2	3	4	5
1. Adoption of PARs	1
2. Government communication	0.271 *	1
3. Government prevention and control	0.358 *	0.686 *	1
4. Government rescue	0.329 *	0.520 *	0.720 *	1
5. Risk perception	0.402 *	0.351 *	0.451 *	0.416 *	1

* Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).