Table 5 Linear Regression for the Outcomes Negative Attitudes, Blame and Social Distance, including emphasis and accuracy as covariates, 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 | −0.008* | −0.014; −0.002 | −0.002 | −0.006; 0.003 | 0.002 | −0.003; 0.007 |
Gender (ref. male) | −0.261** | −0.436; −0.086 | −0.303*** | −0.448; −0.159 | −0.296*** | −0.445; −0.147 |
Education | ||||||
No or below HS (ref.) | ||||||
HS/some college | 0.009 | −0.465; 0.483 | −0.082 | −0.456; 0.290 | 0.119 | −0.264; 0.502 |
College or higher | 0.138 | −0.333; 0.608 | −0.079 | −0.450; 0.292 | 0.092 | −0.289; 0.473 |
Cause | ||||||
Genetic (ref.) | ||||||
Social environmental | 0.017 | −0.191; 0.225 | 0.020 | −0.152; 0.192 | −0.080 | −0.257; 0.097 |
Individual behavior | 0.109 | −0.109; 0.326 | 0.199* | 0.019; 0.379 | −0.167 | −0.352 to −0.018 |
Vignette characteristics | ||||||
Inaccuracy | 0.050 | −0.050; 0.150 | 0.023 | −0.057; 0.105 | 0.123** | 0.040; 0.207 |
Overemphasis | −0.059 | −0.172; 0.054 | 0.034 | −0.058; 0.126 | −0.078 | −0.172; 0.017 |
Constant | 4.623*** | 2.592*** | 1.663*** | |||
R2 | 0.055 | 0.063 | 0.078 | |||
N | 378 | 395 | 395 | |||