Table 2.
Results of regressions predicting preventive behaviours and risky behaviours
| Preventive Behaviours | Risky Behaviours | |||
| Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 1 | Model 2 | |
| n=4863 | n=4863 | n=4841 | n=4841 | |
| Media preference—reference: Trust CNN More | ||||
| Have equal or no preferences | −0.126* | −0.052 | 0.109* | 0.094 |
| Trust Fox News More | −0.163** | −0.105 | 0.129* | 0.121* |
| Survey wave—reference: Wave 2: 4/1–4/29 | ||||
| Wave 1: 3/10–3/31 | −1.685*** | −1.686*** | ||
| Wave 3: 4/15–5/12 | 0.076 | 0.076 | 0.044 | 0.043 |
| Wave 4: 4/29–5/26 | 0.076 | 0.077 | 0.226*** | 0.226*** |
| Wave 5: 5/13–6/9 | −0.081 | −0.080 | 0.511*** | 0.510*** |
| Media preference ×wave | ||||
| Have equal or no preferences | ||||
| ×Wave 1 | −0.089 | −0.089 | ||
| ×Wave 3 | 0.015 | 0.013 | 0.074 | 0.075 |
| ×Wave 4 | −0.112* | −0.111* | 0.066 | 0.067 |
| ×Wave 5 | −0.132* | −0.134* | 0.056 | 0.057 |
| Trust fox news more | ||||
| ×Wave 1 | −0.194* | −0.193* | ||
| ×Wave 3 | −0.102 | −0.102 | 0.115* | 0.116* |
| ×Wave 4 | −0.301*** | −0.302*** | 0.231*** | 0.233*** |
| ×Wave 5 | −0.505*** | −0.506*** | 0.312*** | 0.314*** |
| Age groups—reference: aged 18–44 | ||||
| Aged 45–64 | 0.251*** | 0.227*** | −0.155*** | −0.156*** |
| Aged 65 and above | 0.365*** | 0.328*** | −0.207*** | −0.209*** |
| Male | −0.173*** | −0.154*** | 0.099** | 0.088* |
| Racial/ethnic groups—reference: Non-Hispanic white | ||||
| Non-Hispanic black | 0.286*** | 0.218*** | −0.068 | −0.082 |
| Hispanic | 0.423*** | 0.377*** | −0.033 | −0.023 |
| Non-Hispanic Asian | 0.428*** | 0.363*** | −0.306*** | −0.316*** |
| Non-Hispanic others | 0.026 | −0.007 | 0.161 | 0.156 |
| Education level—reference: high school and less | ||||
| Some college | 0.094* | 0.068 | 0.002 | 0.021 |
| College and higher | 0.192*** | 0.144** | −0.098* | −0.068 |
| Household income—reference: less than US$30 000 | ||||
| US$30 000–US$59 999 | 0.065 | 0.062 | 0.040 | 0.044 |
| US$60 000–US$99 999 | 0.031 | 0.017 | 0.087 | 0.098 |
| US$100 000 or more | 0.106 | 0.094 | 0.064 | 0.073 |
| Working status—reference: have a job and can work from home | ||||
| Have a job and cannot work from home | −0.139** | −0.131** | 0.141** | 0.139** |
| Have no job | −0.024 | −0.017 | −0.126* | −0.121* |
| Self-reported access to professional information sources | 0.110*** | −0.060*** | ||
| Diversity of information sources | 0.033*** | 0.013* | ||
| Constant | 3.796*** | 3.319*** | 0.878*** | 0.951*** |
| R-square | 0.289 | 0.317 | 0.076 | 0.082 |
Model 1 controls for age, gender, race/ethnicity, education, household income, and working status. Model 2 controls for diversity of information sources and professional information sources in addition to model 1. CIs are shown in online supplemental material, table 2.
*P<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.001 (two-sided t-test).