TABLE 3.
Descriptive statistics and correlations matrix.
| Construct | Mean | Std. deviation | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| 1. Gender | 0.47 | 0.50 | – | |||||||||
| 2. Age | 2.43 | 0.72 | −0.06 | – | ||||||||
| 3. Education level | 2.69 | 0.74 | −0.20** | 0.16** | – | |||||||
| 4. Profession | 2.43 | 1.08 | 0.01 | −0.04 | −0.01 | – | ||||||
| 5. Social media usage frequency | 1.70 | 0.81 | 0.03 | −0.10 | −0.03 | −0.05 | – | |||||
| 6. Intentions to seek Information related to COVID-19 | 4.61 | 0.76 | 0.01 | 0.06 | 0.05 | −0.01 | −0.02 | 0.83 | ||||
| 7. Intentions to share Information related to COVID-19 | 4.74 | 0.64 | 0.08 | 0.13* | 0.04 | −0.06 | 0.03 | 0.37** | 0.76 | |||
| 8. Perceived COVID-19 information overload | 5.43 | 1.15 | 0.00 | 0.11* | 0.04 | −0.08 | −0.03 | 0.22** | 0.19** | 0.78 | ||
| 9. COVID-19 fear | 3.80 | 1.12 | 0.11* | 0.13* | 0.05 | −0.10 | −0.10 | 0.17** | 0.13* | 0.30** | 0.89 | |
| 10. Fake news related to COVID-19 | 4.07 | 0.65 | 0.03 | 0.07 | 0.02 | −0.10 | 0.09 | 0.41** | 0.45** | 0.13* | 0.05 | 0.87 |
*p = 0.05, **p = 0.01, diagonal cells represent square roots of average variance extracted. Bold diagonal cells show Cronbach’s alpha values.