TABLE 3.

Hierarchical regression results for belief in anti-government fake news.

Variable	B	SE B	β	t	R 2	R 2 adjusted	ΔR2	AIC	Df
Model 1					0.020	0.0129	0.020	981.4525	274
Constant	3.185***	0.301		10.596
Age	0.012**	0.005	0.133	2.207
Gender	–0.180	0.166	–0.066	–1.088
Model 2					0.038	0.020	0.018	982.222	271
Constant	3.989***	0.583		6.836
Age	0.013**	0.006	0.150	2.403
Gender	–0.087	0.175	–0.032	–0.500
Objective political knowledge	−0.085*	0.051	–0.115	–1.673
Scientific literacy	–0.093	0.084	–0.071	–1.111
Political interest	0.043	0.095	0.031	0.452
Model 3					0.240	0.223	0.208***	919.1493	270
Constant	5.137***	0.537		9.563
Age	0.013**	0.005	0.141	2.553
Gender	–0.053	0.156	–0.019	–0.338
Objective political knowledge	−0.112**	0.045	–0.151	–2.460
Scientific literacy	–0.083	0.075	–0.063	–1.111
Political interest	–0.004	0.085	–0.003	–0.051
Satisfaction with government	−0.262***	0.030	–0.453	–8.456
Variable	B	SE B	β	t	R 2	R 2 adjusted	ΔR2	AIC	Df
Model 4					0.296	0.272	0.056***	891.9675	263
Constant	3.808***	0.655		5.815
Age	0.015***	0.005	0.164	3.002
Gender	–0.057	0.160	–0.020	–0.354
Objective political knowledge	−0.082*	0.047	–0.110	–1.757
Scientific literacy	–0.061	0.076	–0.047	–0.802
Political interest	–0.047	0.084	–0.033	–0.562
Satisfaction with government	−0.211***	0.051	–0.366	–4.135
RWA	–0.016	0.100	–0.013	–0.160
System justification	–0.107	0.082	–0.125	–1.297
CMQ	0.284***	0.067	0.236	4.272

AIC = Akaike information criterion.

*p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001.