Table 2.
Descriptive statistics and psychometric properties.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Perceived threat | 0.826 | |||||||||||
| 2. Perceived Information overload | 0.073 | 0.834 | ||||||||||
| 3. Sadness | 0.269 | 0.298 | 0.827 | |||||||||
| 4. Anxiety | 0.178 | 0.501 | 0.572 | 0.867 | ||||||||
| 5. Cognitive dissonance | 0.061 | 0.482 | 0.357 | 0.524 | 0.825 | |||||||
| 6. Information avoidance intention | −0.193 | 0.320 | 0.071 | 0.237 | 0.375 | 0.857 | ||||||
| 7. Preventive behavior intention | 0.331 | −0.072 | 0.101 | 0.044 | −0.064 | −0.340 | 0.793 | |||||
| 8. Age | −0.089 | 0.001 | −0.085 | −0.041 | −0.001 | 0.067 | −0.006 | NA | ||||
| 9. Gender | −0.023 | −0.057 | −0.102 | −0.125 | −0.027 | 0.029 | −0.004 | 0.032 | NA | |||
| 10. Education | 0.118 | −0.033 | 0.052 | 0.023 | −0.002 | −0.102 | 0.064 | −0.352 | −0.029 | NA | ||
| 11. Professionals | 0.098 | 0.005 | 0.075 | 0.085 | 0.084 | −0.022 | 0.006 | 0.133 | 0.004 | −0.020 | NA | |
| 12. Health status | −0.050 | −0.148 | −0.081 | −0.153 | −0.140 | −0.144 | 0.025 | −0.076 | 0.014 | 0.121 | −0.041 | NA |
| Cronbach's Alpha | 0.767 | 0.785 | 0.764 | 0.835 | 0.765 | 0.819 | 0.712 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Composite Reliability | 0.866 | 0.873 | 0.866 | 0.900 | 0.865 | 0.892 | 0.836 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Mean | 4.393 | 2.701 | 3.469 | 3.061 | 2.610 | 1.991 | 4.207 | 32.264 | 0.413 | 4.868 | 2.610 | 4.046 |
| Std. Dev. | 0.605 | 0.902 | 0.853 | 0.916 | 0.904 | 0.786 | 0.627 | 10.077 | 0.493 | 0.933 | 0.732 | 0.695 |
Notes. The diagonal elements are the square roots of the AVE values; the off-diagonal elements are the squared correlations among factors. For discriminant validity, the diagonal elements should be larger than the off-diagonal elements.