TABLE 3.

Analysis of the results of hierarchical regression.

Variable	Hopefulness		Time discount rate
	M2	M6	M1	M3	M4	M5	M7	M8
Choice deferral behavior	0.46	0.44**	–0.16*		0.04	–0.10	0.04	0.05
Hopefulness				–0.41*	–0.43*		–0.42	–0.25
Perceived Information integrity		0.56				–0.20	–0.01	–0.11
Perceived information integrity* Hopefulness								–0.40***
R2	0.21	0.49	0.03	0.17	0.17	0.08	0.17	0.31
F	48.1	83.78	4.64*	35.23	17.66	7.60	11.71	18.86***
ΔR2	0.21	0.49	0.02	0.17	0.16	0.07	0.16	0.29

“M” is the abbreviation of “model”; ***P < 0.001, **P < 0.01, *P < 0.05.