TABLE 3.

Unstandardized loadings (standard errors) and standardized loadings for Model 3 (correlated) confirmatory factor analyses of climate change (n = 1,601) and coronavirus pandemic (n = 1,602).

	Climate change				Coronavirus pandemic
Item	Threat/Dread		(Un)Known risk		Threat/Dread		(Un)Known risk
	Unstandardized	Standardized	Unstandardized	Standardized	Unstandardized	Standardized	Unstandardized	Standardized
Threat to humankind	1.00 (–)	0.93 (0.02)			1.00 (–)	0.85 (0.02)
Personal threat	0.97 (0.02)	0.91 (02)			1.09 (0.03)	0.87 (0.02)
Threat to animals, plants	1.02 (0.01)	0.94 (0.02)			0.79 (0.03)	0.61 (0.02)
Dread	0.92 (0.02)	0.83 (0.02)			0.94 (0.03)	0.73 (0.02)
Understood by science			1.00 (–)	−0.96 (0.03)			1.00 (–)	0.65 (0.04)
Well informed			0.41 (0.03)	−0.46 (0.03)			1.13 (0.10)	0.73 (0.04)
Delay of consequences			−0.31 (0.03)	0.29 (0.03)			0.50 (0.06)	0.26 (0.03)

See Table 1 for complete item wording. Dashes (–) indicate that standard error was not estimated. GFI = 0.95 (climate change), 0.96 (coronavirus pandemic); RMSE = 0.14 (climate change), 0.08 (coronavirus pandemic). χ²(13) = 443.60, p < 0.001 for climate change; χ²(13) = 144.49, p < 0.001 for coronavirus pandemic. The correlation between Threat/Dread and Known Risk latent variables is −0.78 for climate change and.39 for coronavirus pandemic.