Table 5.

Hierarchical regression results for COVID-19 deaths per 1 million on December 29, 2020 (WHO).

Variable	B	95% CI	for B	SE B	β	R2	ΔR2
		LL	UL
Step 1: Control variables						0.30**
Constant	−4746.97	−7024.09	−2697.36	1163.80
GDP per capita	−0.00	−0.01	0.00	0.00	−0.18
Gini index	1.52	−18.42	23.15	9.32	0.03
Pop density	0.72	−0.23	1.93	0.60	0.24
Median Age	17.72	−3.99	44.26	10.23	0.28
BMI	175.83	84.33	267.58	44.26	0.61***
Step 2: Control variables and cultural values						0.49**	0.19*
Constant	−11512.48	−18511.22	−4917.24	3784.25
GDP per capita	−0.01	−0.02	0.00	0.01	−0.37
Gini index	5.74	−14.30	28.56	10.32	0.11
Pop density	0.61	−0.35	1.85	0.51	0.20
Median Age	13.96	−8.32	44.82	12.55	0.22
BMI	138.02	42.31	241.71	53.22	0.48**
IndividualismH	3.70	−0.72	7.72	2.53	0.21
Power DistanceH	2.57	−3.90	9.08	3.79	0.14
Intel AutonomyS	677.17	−144.52	1587.65	392.29	0.55*
EmbeddednessS	449.76	−610.91	1491.86	408.74	0.35
EgalitarianismS	563.82	58.37	1197.13	284.74	0.40*
HierarchyS	91.07	−249.71	418.51	174.12	0.11

Bootstrapped results for 1,000 samples; CI, BCa Confidence interval; LL, lower limit; UL, upper limit. “H” stands for Hofstede values, “S” stands for Schwartz values.

^*p < 0.05,

^**p < 0.01,

^***p ≤ 0.001.