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. 2021 Nov 16;16(11):e0259866. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259866

Table 1. Means, standard deviations and correlations of major variables.

N = 326 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 M SD
1. Gender - 1.70 0.46
2. Age -0.14* - 27.52 6.10
3. Education -0.06 0.38*** - 6.98 1.49
4. Traditional Media -0.06 -0.05 -0.02 - 0.56 0.50
5. SNS Newsa -0.05 -0.01 -0.03 0.14* - 0.90 0.31
6. Host Newspaper Coverage 0.06 -0.09 0.08 -0.06 0.08 - 16.34 9.29
7. Ethnic Newspaper Coverageb -0.12* 0.12* 0.23*** 0.06 -0.02 0.29*** - 49.81 53.37
8. Anger -0.03 -0.01 -0.04 0.12* 0.12* 0.12* 0.01 - 4.22 0.70
9. National Identity 0.04 0.01 -0.01 0.20*** 0.17** 0.12* 0.01 0.29*** - 3.95 0.50
10. Sino Favoritism 0.06 -0.07 -0.18*** 0.13* 0.04 -0.33*** -0.38*** 0.06 0.19*** - 2.24 0.26
11. Sino Distance 0.03 0.08 0.13* 0.00 0.05 0.04 0.18** -0.02 -0.09 -0.15** - 0.14 0.03

***p< = 0.001

**p< = 0.01

*p< = 0.5.

Note: Traditional Media Use and SNS News are binary variables (1 = Yes; 0 = No) and used Spearman’s correlation.

Host/Ethnic Newspaper Coverage refers to the number of news reports on anti-Chinese discrimination in each country by host and ethnic media (Jan.23 - Apr.23, 2020).