Table 2.
Effects of conspiracy theory belief, political identity, and anti-intellectualism on vaccine support.
| Sample 1 |
Sample 2 |
Sample 1 |
Sample 2 |
Sample 1 |
Sample 2 |
Sample 1 |
Sample 2 |
Sample 1 |
Sample 2 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | (9) | (10) | |
| Age | − 0.05 | − 0.06 | − 0.03 | − 0.07 + | 0.01 | − 0.05 | − 0.00 | − 0.06 | − 0.04 | − 0.06 |
| (0.03) | (0.03) | (0.03) | (0.04) | (0.04) | (0.04) | (0.05) | (0.05) | (0.05) | (0.05) | |
| Female | − 0.00 | 0.01 | − 0.00 | 0.00 | − 0.00 | − 0.01 | 0.00 | − 0.03 + | − 0.00 | − 0.01 |
| Dummy | (0.01) | (0.01) | (0.01) | (0.02) | (0.02) | (0.02) | (0.02) | (0.02) | (0.02) | (0.02) |
| White | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.06* | 0.07* | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.03 |
| Dummy | (0.02) | (0.02) | (0.02) | (0.02) | (0.03) | (0.02) | (0.03) | (0.02) | (0.04) | (0.03) |
| Income | 0.01 | 0.01* | 0.05* | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.01 + | 0.03 | 0.01 | − 0.03 | 0.01* |
| (0.02) | (0.00) | (0.03) | (0.00) | (0.03) | (0.00) | (0.03) | (0.00) | (0.04) | (0.00) | |
| Education | − 0.02 | 0.05 | − 0.02 | 0.08* | 0.00 | 0.07 + | − 0.07 | − 0.00 | − 0.06 | − 0.06 |
| (0.03) | (0.03) | (0.04) | (0.03) | (0.04) | (0.04) | (0.05) | (0.04) | (0.06) | (0.05) | |
| Political | 0.00 | 0.05 | 0.11* | 0.15* | 0.12* | 0.17* | 0.12* | 0.15* | 0.00 | 0.07 |
| Knowledge | (0.03) | (0.03) | (0.04) | (0.03) | (0.04) | (0.04) | (0.05) | (0.05) | (0.05) | (0.05) |
| Political | 0.06* | 0.00 | 0.04 | 0.01 | − 0.03 | 0.00 | 0.03 | − 0.03 | 0.02 | − 0.02 |
| Interest | (0.03) | (0.04) | (0.04) | (0.04) | (0.04) | (0.04) | (0.05) | (0.05) | (0.05) | (0.05) |
| Democratic | − 0.07 + | − 0.05 | − 0.13* | − 0.11* | − 0.07 | − 0.07 | 0.06 | − 0.11 + | 0.04 | − 0.05 |
| Satisfaction | (0.04) | (0.05) | (0.04) | (0.04) | (0.05) | (0.05) | (0.06) | (0.06) | (0.06) | (0.07) |
| Internal | − 0.02 | − 0.02 | − 0.05 | 0.03 | − 0.11* | 0.05 | − 0.09 | 0.04 | − 0.04 | 0.05 |
| Efficacy | (0.04) | (0.04) | (0.05) | (0.04) | (0.05) | (0.05) | (0.06) | (0.06) | (0.06) | (0.06) |
| External | − 0.03 | − 0.04 | − 0.06 | − 0.07 + | − 0.04 | − 0.09* | − 0.06 | − 0.01 | − 0.05 | − 0.16* |
| Efficacy | (0.03) | (0.04) | (0.04) | (0.04) | (0.04) | (0.04) | (0.06) | (0.05) | (0.06) | (0.07) |
| Trust | − 0.05 | 0.02 | − 0.07 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.08 | 0.01 | 0.10 | − 0.02 | 0.05 |
| (0.05) | (0.05) | (0.05) | (0.05) | (0.05) | (0.06) | (0.07) | (0.07) | (0.07) | (0.08) | |
| Learned | − 0.13* | − 0.04 | − 0.14* | − 0.10* | − 0.15* | − 0.18* | − 0.03 | − 0.10 + | − 0.04 | − 0.08 |
| Helplessness | (0.03) | (0.05) | (0.04) | (0.05) | (0.04) | (0.05) | (0.05) | (0.06) | (0.06) | (0.06) |
| COVID CT | − 0.56* | − 0.45* | − 0.39* | − 0.38* | ||||||
| Index | (0.04) | (0.05) | (0.10) | (0.08) | ||||||
| Conspiratorial | − 0.27* | − 0.25* | − 0.13* | − 0.09 | ||||||
| Thinking | (0.02) | (0.04) | (0.05) | (0.06) | ||||||
| Ideology | − 0.21* | − 0.11* | − 0.06 | 0.00 | ||||||
| (0.04) | (0.04) | (0.06) | (0.06) | |||||||
| Republican | 0.01 | − 0.09* | 0.02 | − 0.08* | ||||||
| Dummy | (0.02) | (0.03) | (0.04) | (0.04) | ||||||
| Independent | 0.02 | − 0.07* | − 0.03 | − 0.15* | ||||||
| Dummy | (0.03) | (0.03) | (0.04) | (0.05) | ||||||
| Anti- | − 0.44* | − 0.37* | − 0.19* | − 0.18* | ||||||
| Intellectualism | (0.05) | (0.05) | (0.08) | (0.07) | ||||||
| Constant | 0.94* | 0.82* | 0.88* | 0.77* | 0.78* | 0.68* | 0.76* | 0.77* | 1.02* | 1.01* |
| (0.05) | (0.06) | (0.06) | (0.06) | (0.06) | (0.06) | (0.08) | (0.07) | (0.09) | (0.08) | |
| N | 570 | 477 | 567 | 477 | 503 | 420 | 312 | 255 | 207 | 170 |
| adj. R2 | 0.434 | 0.320 | 0.312 | 0.224 | 0.295 | 0.233 | 0.313 | 0.290 | 0.524 | 0.493 |
Note: Sample 1: MTurk; Sample 2: Forthright. Standard errors in parentheses + P < 0.10, * P < 0.05.