Table 2.
Correlation between variables (N = 411).
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1. Age | 1.00 | |||||||||
| 2. Gender | 0.01 | 1.00 | ||||||||
| 3. Marital Status | 0.69 ** | 0.04 | 1.00 | |||||||
| 4. Education | −0.51 ** | −0.06 | −0.45 ** | 1.00 | ||||||
| 5. Employment | −0.07 | 0.06 | 0.04 | −0.10 * | 1.00 | |||||
| 6. Monthly income | 0.48 ** | −0.08 | 0.26 ** | −0.07 | −0.67 ** | 1.00 | ||||
| 7. Perceived information distortion | 0.20 ** | 0.01 | 0.08 | −0.06 | 0.09 | 0.02 | 1.00 | |||
| 8. Functional literacy | −0.14 ** | −0.07 | −0.14 ** | 0.11 * | 0.05 | −0.08 | −0.13 ** | 1.00 | ||
| 9. Critical literacy | −0.11 * | 0.01 | −0.08 | 0.11 * | 0.07 | −0.11 * | 0.01 | 0.08 | 1.00 | |
| 10. Addictive SMU | −0.23 ** | 0.04 | −0.18 ** | 0.11 * | 0.03 | −0.14 ** | 0.02 | −0.26 ** | 0.03 | 1.00 |
** p < 0.01, * p < 0.05.