Table 4 Linear Regression for the Outcomes Negative Attitudes, Blame and Social Distance including neutral vignette, unstandardized Beta Coefficients and 95% Confidence Intervals
From: Changing attitudes towards obesity – results from a survey experiment
Negative attitudes | Blame | Social distance | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
b | CI | b | CI | b | CI | |
Age | −0.007* | −0.011; −0.002 | −0.002 | −0.006; 0.002 | 0.002 | −0.002; 0.006 |
Gender (ref. male) | −0.272** | −0.421; −0.123 | −0.315*** | −0.436; −0.194 | −0.313*** | −0.440; −0.189 |
Education | ||||||
No or below HS (ref.) | ||||||
HS/some college | −0.108 | −0.513; 0.296 | −0.177 | −0.488; 0.134 | 0.074 | −0.252; 0.400 |
College or higher | 0.105 | −0.297; 0.507 | −0.186 | −0.495; 0.123 | 0.075 | −0.249; 0.400 |
Cause | ||||||
Neutral vignette (ref.) | ||||||
Social environmental | 0.052 | −0.152; 0.256 | −0.118 | −0.282; 0.046 | −0.010 | −0.182; 0.162 |
Individual behavior | 0.138 | −0.066; 0.343 | 0.043 | −0.122; 0.207 | −0.105 | −0.278; 0.068 |
Genetic causes | 0.023 | −0.183; 0.229 | −0.121 | −0.287; 0.045 | 0.075 | −0.100; 0.249 |
Constant | 4.545*** | 2.891*** | 1.689*** | |||
R2 | 0.059 | 0.060 | 0.052 | |||
N | 514 | 539 | 538 | |||