Table 4.
Differences in levels of trust between YouTubers in general and the other sources of information regarding information in general and information about the benefit of home confinement measures using Wilcoxon signed-rank tests (n = 596)
| YouTubers in general (n = 596) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Information in general | Information about the benefit of home confinement measures | |||
| Z-score | P | Z-score | P | |
| Medical and paramedical professionals | − 21.05 | 0.000*** | − 21.12 | 0.000*** |
| Members of the government | − 12.82 | 0.000*** | − 15.04 | 0.000*** |
| Journalists | − 13.382 | 0.000*** | − 15.361 | 0.000*** |
| Family members | − 16.15 | 0.000*** | − 17.78 | 0.000*** |
| Friends | − 16.02 | 0.000*** | − 17.54 | 0.000*** |
| Other social media celebrities | 8.18 | 0.000*** | 6.84 | 0.000*** |
| Traditional celebrities | 6.48 | 0.000*** | 5.78 | 0.000*** |
∗ p < 0.05; ∗ ∗ p < 0.01; ∗ ∗ ∗ p < 0.001. Z-score is the test statistic produced by the Wilcoxon signed rank test