Table 2.

Associations between beliefs about COVID-19, precautionary behavior and media consumption.

	COVID-threat belief	COVID-threat skepticism	Trust in misinformation	Trust in authorities	Health measures	Hours of news consumption	Change in news consumption (decrease-increase)	Hours of Internet use	Distinguishing facts from misinformation	Trust traditional media	Trust social media	Political orientation (left-right)	Age
COVID-threat belief	-	−0.207**	0.108*	−0.340**	0.230**	0.101*	0.155**	0.071	−0.083	−0.121*	0.070	−0.167**	−0.220**
COVID-threat skepticism		-	0.425**	−0.398**	−0.383**	−0.019	−0.227**	0.089	−0.166**	−0.290**	−0.094	0.086	−0.130**
Trust in misinformation			-	−0.341**	−0.087	0.018	−0.153**	0.204**	−0.216**	−0.328**	0.104*	0.090	−0.094
Trust in authorities				-	0.112*	0.029	0.123*	−0.080	0.239**	0.486**	0.103*	−0.023	0.202**
Health measures					-	0.113*	0.200**	0.057	−0.100*	0.074	−0.035	−0.050	0.066
Hours of news consumption						-	0.220**	0.436**	0.080	0.083	0.037	−0.098*	0.086
Increase in news consumption							-	−0.019	0.047	0.203**	0.048	−0.038	0.134**
Hours of Internet use								-	−0.037	0.039	0.077	−0.070	−0.095
Distinguishing facts from misinformation									-	0.368**	0.011	−0.140**	−0.144**
Trust traditional media										-	0.273**	−0.160**	0.083
Trust social media											-	−0.087	0.115*
Political orientation (left-right)												-	−0.060
Age													-

^*p ≤ 0.05;

^**p ≤ 0.001.