TABLE 7.

Hierarchical regression results for belief pro-government fake news.

Variable	B	SE B	β	t	R 2	R 2 adjusted	ΔR2	AIC	df
Model 1					0.011	0.005	0.011	956.172	274
Constant	3.518***	0.287		12.253
Age	–0.007	0.005	–0.081	–1.352
Gender	–0.167	0.158	–0.064	–1.054
Model 2					0.112	0.101	0.101***	932.3040	271
Constant	5.198***	0.553		9.750
Age	–0.001	0.005	–0.001	–0.070
Gender	0.050	0.160	0.019	0.312
Objective political knowledge	−0.162***	0.046	–0.229	–3.475
Scientific literacy	–0.88	0.076	–0.071	–1.155
Political interest	−0.182**	0.087	–0.137	–2.102
Model 3					0.361	0.347	0.249***	843.5304	270
Constant	3.986***	0.469		8.505
Age	0.001	0.004	0.004	0.093
Gender	0.013	0.136	0.005	0.097
Objective political knowledge	−0.133***	0.040	–0.189	–3.367
Scientific literacy	–0.098	0.065	–0.080	–1.523
Political interest	−0.133*	0.074	–0.010	–1.179
Satisfaction with government	0.276***	0.027	0.502	10.232
Variable	B	SE B	β	t	R 2	R 2 adjusted	ΔR2	AIC	df
Model 4					0.415	0.390	0.054***	815.2916	259
Constant	2.367***	0.647		3.657
Age	–0.001	0.004	–0.010	–0.197
Gender	–0.111	0.143	–0.042	–0.780
Objective political knowledge	−0.076*	0.042	–0.106	–1.840
Scientific literacy	–0.064	0.068	–0.051	–0.944
Political interest	–0.121	0.074	–0.090	–1.637
Political orientation	0.155***	0.046	0.281	3.394
RWA	0.079	0.093	0.067	0.400
System justification	0.166**	0.073	0.203	2.278
Conspiracy mentality	0.186***	0.060	0.162	3.119
Need for closure	0.002	0.091	0.001	0.022
Social dominance orientation	0.038	0.065	0.034	0.582

AIC = Akaike information criterion.

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