Table 3.

Spearman correlations (R) between COVID-19 attitudinal components among both samples (Feb. 2020 & Mar. 2020) (N = 1074)

	1	2	3	4
1. News consumption
2. Worry	0.505***
3. Public panic perception	0.099**	0.140***
4. Media contribution to public panic	0.113***	0.086*	0.345***
5. Trust in the Ministry of Health	0.219***	0.197***	0.069	0.028

^*** p-value <.001 level ^** p-value = .001 ^*p-value <.01 level