Table 2.

Standardized Regression Coefficients of structural equation models stratified by gender, age, and education, using VH as the response variable in populations of Portuguese-speaking countries (N = 6843).

Adjustment Pathways/Indices	Gender		Age (Years)			Education
	Men	Women	18 to 29	30 to 49	50 or More	Elementary and High School	University
Ancestors of VH
COVS→VH	−0.007	0.027	0.098	0.004	/0.040	0.004	0.001
MIS→VH	0.317 **	0.269 **	0.285 *	0.673 **	−0.008	0.233 **	0.245 **
CIR→VH	−0.152 *	−0.122 *	−0.291 *	−0.110	−0.410 **	−0.106 *	−0.098 *
PS→VH	0.297 **	0.344 **	0.578 **	0.111	0.151 *	0.320 **	0.318 **
GB→VH	0.795 **	0.953 **	0.587 **	0.484 **	0.906 **	0.911 **	0.905 **
Descendants of COVS
COVS→PS	−0.265 **	−0.062	−0.106	−0.195 **	−0.077	−0.128 *	−0.128 *
COVS→GB	−0.085	0.068 *	0.037	0.008	0.051	0.037	0.037
COVS→CIR	−0.180 **	0.042	0.133 *	−0.188 **	0.066	−0.081 *	−0.110 **
Descendants of MIS
MIS→PS	−0.059	−0.132	−0.148	−0.304 *	−0.043	−0.062	−0.067
MIS→GB	0.372 **	0.365 **	0.316 **	0.617 **	0.382 **	0.323 **	0.333 **
MIS→CIR	0.002	−0.007	−0.131	0.199 *	−0.119	−0.043	−0.022
PS descendants
PS→CIR	0.138 *	0.088	0.359 **	0.039	0.066	0.054	0.049
Descendants of VB
GB→PS	−0.163 *	−0.461 **	−0.155 *	−0.097	−0.200	−0.324 **	−0.320 **
r a
CB1↔GB	0.820 **	0.828 **	0.845 **	0.942 **	0.739 **	0.815 **	0.822 **
R21↔R3	0.376 **	0.361	0.187	0.594 *	0.517	−	0.587 **
C11↔C2	0.376 **	0.430 **	0.538 **	0.471 **	0.236 **	0.405 **	0.408 **
C11↔C5	0.338 **	0.361 **	0.353 **	0.353 **	0.498 **	0.339 **	0.345 **
C31↔C4	0.178 **	0.188 **	0.226 **	0.170 **	0.218 **	0.168 **	0.167 **
G31↔G7	−0.148 **	−0.187 **	−0.129 *	−0.206 **	−0.211 *	−0.202 **	−0.179 **
G41↔G9	0.484 **	0.270 **	0.427 **	0.171 **	0.331 **	0.280 **	0.309 **
G41↔G8	0.134 *	0.164 **	0.090	0.203 **	−0.011	0.160 **	0.158 **
G71↔G9	0.490 **	0.261 **	0.332 *	0.258 **	0.313 **	0.368 **	0.335 **
G81↔G9	0.258 **	0.180	0.262 **	0.109 *	0.176 *	0.188 **	0.187 **
Fit indices
RMSEA
Index	0.055	0.036	0.041	0.039	0.060	0.038	0.037
90%CI	0.051–0.059	0.037–0.046	0.026–0.029	0.036–0.042	0.054–0.066	0.036–0.041	0.034–0.039
CFI	0.975	0.987	0.995	0.988	0.995	0.989	0.988
TLI	0.971	0.985	0.995	0.986	0.995	0.987	0.987

CIR: COVID-19 individual responses; MIS: COVID-19 misinformation; COVS: COVID-19 suffering; VB: Vaccine conspiracy beliefs; PS: Perceived stress; VH: Vaccine hesitancy. ^a Residual correlations (↔) between indicators. * p-value < 0.05. ** p-value < 0.001.