Table 3.

Means, standard deviations, and t values for the study variables by gender.

	Male		Female		t = (185)	Cohen’s d	p
	M	SD	M	SD
Trust	3.79	0.94	3.76	0.96	0.22	0.03	0.82
Negative emotions	2.62	1.30	3.37	1.34	−3.89	−0.57	<0.001
Positive emotions	3.94	1.10	3.35	0.99	3.85	0.57	<0.001
Perceived threat	4.96	1.08	5.31	0.91	−2.33	−0.35	0.02
Perceived risk	4.50	0.95	4.75	0.74	−2.03	−0.31	0.04
Compliance-Preventive Behavior	5.65	0.92	5.71	1.09	−0.41	−0.06	0.68

Note. t for unequal variances: perceived threat df = 177.32; perceived risk df = 171.85.