Table 1.
Self-reported selective exposure | Perceived selective exposure | Actual selective exposure | ||||
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B | SE B | B | SE B | B | SE B | |
(Constant) | 2.479 | .086 | 9.251 | .295 | .057 | .074 |
Sex (baseline male) | .030 | .021 | .018† | .010 | −.012 | .021 |
Age | .000 | .002 | .001 | .002 | .002* | .001 |
Education | .033 | .031 | .097 | .066 | −.031** | .010 |
Political interest | .033* | .013 | .057* | .026 | −.013* | .007 |
Political orientation | .004 | .005 | −.075† | .027 | .015*** | .002 |
Political extremity | .083*** | .076 | −.655*** | .042 | .012* | .005 |
Predictors #1 - #4 | ||||||
#1 Users in more fragmented-polarized media environments | .405*** | .059 | .204* | .099 | −.047* | .024 |
#2 TV user | −.092 | .062 | −.137 | .095 | −.066** | .024 |
#3 Radio user | −.014 | .023 | −.013 | .091 | −.021* | .082 |
#3 Newspaper user | −.042† | .025 | −.063 | .097 | .022 | .027 |
#4 Social media user | .073* | .029 | −.02 | .037 | −.017 | .011 |
N | 2812 | 2560 | 2825 | |||
R 2 | .101 | .270 | .018 | |||
F | 299.48*** | 804.78*** | 51.04*** |
OLS: ordinary least squares.
Estimates are unstandardized coefficients (B) with standard errors (SE B).
p < .001, **p < .01, *p < .05, †p < .1 (two-tailed).