Table 5.
Gender-based differences in risk perception and its domains.
| Risk perception | Male |
Female |
Statistical difference |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | t-testa | p-value | |
| Fear | 3.455 | 0.744 | 3.631 | 0.635 | −2.580 | 0.011 |
| Behaviour | 3.039 | 0.600 | 3.099 | 0.615 | −1.284 | 0.201 |
| Awareness | 3.897 | 0.654 | 3.858 | 0.596 | 0.151 | 0.88 |
| Trust | 3.334 | 0.727 | 3.587 | 0.649 | −2.489 | 0.014 |
| Risk Perception | 3.419 | 0.438 | 3.573 | 0.380 | −3.306 | 0.001 |
a
Negative (-ve) values imply that the latter group (females) perceives risk more than the former group (males).