Table 2.

Hierarchical multiple regressions on both misinformation of COVID-19.

	Misinformation belief 1 (lab)		Misinformation belief 2 (vaccine)
Step 1	b	SE	b	SE
Constant	3.900***	0.405	3.485***	0.412
Gender	−0.183	0.117	−0.134	0.119
Age	0.003	0.004	0.003	0.004
Education	0.020	0.036	0.023	0.037
Income	0.009	0.009	0.011	0.009
Race	−0.186	0.112	−0.079	0.114
Political ideology	−0.005	0.027	−0.014	0.027
Political interest	0.367***	0.068	0.270***	0.71
Model R2	0.025		0.020
F for R2	1.851		1.484
Step 2
Constant	3.611***	0.548	2.366***	0.556
Gender	−0.132	0.114	−0.083	0.116
Age	0.010	0.004	0.009	0.005
Education	−0.033	0.037	−0.015	0.037
Income	0.002	0.008	0.005	0.009
Race	−0.171	0.109	−0.054	0.110
Political ideology	−0.018	0.026	−0.027	0.026
Political interest	0.285***	0.070	0.179*	0.072
Social media use	0.052*	0.041	0.133**	0.042
Discussion heterogeneity preference	−0.168***	0.044	−0.092*	0.045
Worry of COVID-19	0.126*	0.051	0.147**	0.051
Δ R2	0.025***		0.020***
Model R2	0.091***		0.072***
F for R2	7.833***		11.088***

Note. Cell entries are unstandardized coefficients. *p < .05, **p < .01, ***p < .001.