Table 4.

Parameters estimated from the reduced linear model calculating the effect of sociodemographic variables, i.e. gender, age, education level, biology background, and scores on the Disgust Scale - Revised (only its core and animal reminder disgust subscale) and Snake Questionnaire (SNAQ) on two subscale scores of the Spiders Phobia Beliefs Questionnaire, the spider-related (SpB) and self-related (SrB) score. Only significant effects are reported

Variable	SpB		SrB
	Parameter	p	Parameter	p
Intercept	2.96	< 0.01	1.23	<  0.01
Male gender	–	< 0.01	−0.89	< 0.01
Biology education	−0.37	0.04	–	–
Core disgust	0.05	< 0.01	–	–
Animal reminder disgust	0.07	< 0.01	0.10	< 0.01