Table 4.
Maximum Likelihood Estimates for the Mediating Effect of Political Ideology on the Relationship between Degree of COVID-19 Threat and Support for Travel Ban (Model 3)
| Parameter | Unstandardized Coefficients | |
|---|---|---|
| Conservatives | Non-conservatives | |
| Support for Travel Ban | ||
| ← Political Ideology |
−0.117* (0.053) |
−0.091*** (0.025) |
| ← Degree of COVID-19 Threat |
0.019 (0.025) |
0.005 (0.019) |
| ← Gender (1 = Male, 0 = Female) |
0.080 (0.056) |
−0.049 (0.036) |
| ← Age |
0.003 (0.002) |
−0.000 (0.001) |
| ← Race (1 = White, 0 = Nonwhite) |
0.029 (0.066) |
−0.064 (0.039) |
|
← Household Annual Income (1 = $50 K or above, 0 = below$50 K) |
−0.205*** (0.061) |
−0.083* (0.039) |
|
← Education (1 = Graduate Degree, 0 = No Graduate Degree) |
−0.025 (0.090) |
−0.064 (0.049) |
| ← Being Employed |
−0.004 (0.089) |
0.060 (0.054) |
| ← Being Retired |
−0.145 (0.101) |
0.061 (0.069) |
| Political Ideology | ||
| ← Degree of COVID-19 Threat |
0.019 (0.023) |
0.066* (0.028) |
| ← Gender (1 = Male, 0 = Female) |
−0.005 (0.052) |
−0.139* (0.054) |
| ← Age |
−0.001 (0.002) |
−0.007*** (0.001) |
| ← Race (1 = White, 0 = Nonwhite) |
−0.114† (0.060) |
0.088 (0.059) |
|
← Household Annual Income (1 = $50 K or above, 0 = below$50 K) |
−0.051 (0.056) |
−0.075 (0.059) |
|
← Education (1 = Graduate Degree, 0 = No Graduate Degree) |
−0.043 (0.083) |
0.206** (0.072) |
| ← Being Employed |
−0.039 (0.082) |
−0.051 (0.082) |
| ← Being Retired |
−0.098 (0.093) |
0.052 (0.105) |
|
Support for Travel Ban ← Political Ideology ← Degree of COVID-19 Threat |
−0.006* (0.003) |
−0.002 (0.003) |
| Observations | 423 | 788 |
Note: Goodness of fit test statistics are not reported since the model is a saturated model
Standard errors in parentheses.
† < 0.1, * < 0.05, ** < 0.01, *** < 0.001.