Table 2.

Correlation/Covariance Matrix and Descriptive Statistics of the Measured Variables.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
1. Vaccine conspiracy belief	1.24	0.71	−0.25	−0.14	−0.28	−0.64	−0.32	0.60	−0.80
2. Science pessimism	0.64	1.00	−0.40	−0.16	−0.32	−0.57	−0.28	0.44	−0.68
3. Media dependency	−0.24	−0.42	0.92	0.32	0.35	0.44	0.16	−0.19	0.50
4. COVID-19 susceptibility	−0.13	−0.17	0.34	0.94	0.43	0.34	0.08	0.02	0.32
5. COVID-19 severity	−0.29	−0.37	0.42	0.51	0.74	0.42	0.19	−0.16	0.41
6. Vaccine efficacy	−0.58	−0.57	0.47	0.36	0.49	0.99	0.31	−0.50	0.91
7. Self-efficacy	−0.36	−0.35	0.21	0.10	0.28	0.39	0.65	−0.25	0.39
8. Vaccine risk	0.63	0.52	−0.23	0.03	−0.22	−0.58	−0.36	0.74	−0.61
9. Vaccination willingness	−0.59	−0.56	0.43	0.27	0.39	0.75	0.39	−0.59	1.49
M	2.39	2.28	3.54	3.02	4.06	3.71	3.54	2.74	3.63
SD	1.11	1.00	0.96	0.97	0.86	0.99	0.80	0.86	1.22
t(215)	−8.02	−10.61	8.26	0.35 ns	18.07	10.53	9.79	−4.41	7.55

Note. The diagonal (in bold typeface for ease of reference) shows variances. Numbers above the diagonal are covariances and numbers below the diagonal are correlations. Correlations with magnitudes of 0.13 and larger are significant (p < .05, two-tailed). M = unadjusted mean. SD = standard deviation of the mean. t(215) is the one-sample t-value with 215 degrees of freedom. The one-sample t-test compares mean scores against a test value of 3, which was the middle response option on the measurement items. ^ns = not significant. All other t-values are significant at p < .001 (two-tailed).