Table 1.
Means for the likelihood of complying with public service announcements (PSAs). Data were collected in July 2020 from 292 participants from Amazon Mechanical Turk, who viewed two PSAs: 1 advocating wearing a mask and 1 advocating staying at home. One PSA was an information-based control PSA and the other was a Christian or economically motivated identity–framed PSA.
PSA type | Likelihood of staying at home | Likelihood of wearing a mask | |||
|
Mean (SD) |
Number of participants | Mean (SD) |
Number of participants | |
Economy-framed PSA when aligned | 78.94 (21.54) |
65 | 84.26 (19.68) |
78 | |
Christian-framed PSA when aligned | 81.99 (26.29) |
31 | 84.62 (27.97) |
24 | |
Nonaligned PSA | 68.09 (34.59) |
51 | 63.35 (37.76) |
43 | |
Control PSA | 71.09 (31.11) |
145 | 77.85 (30.85) |
147 |