Changing attitudes towards obesity – results from a survey experiment

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Linear Regression for the Outcomes Negative Attitudes, Blame and Social Distance, unstandardized Beta Coefficients and 95% Confidence Intervals

	Outcome negative attitudes				Outcome blame				Outcome social distance
	Cause induced by vignette		Cause according to personal belief		Cause induced by vignette		Cause according; to personal belief		Cause induced by vignette		Cause according to personal belief
	b	CI	b	CI	b	CI	b	CI	b	CI	b	CI
Age	−0.008^*	−0.014; −0.002	−0.008^**	−0.014; −0.002	−0.002	−0.006; 0.003	−0.002	−0.006; 0.003	0.002	−0.003; 0.007	0.001	−0.004; 0.006
Gender (ref Male)	−0.285^**	−0.457; −0.113	−0.260^**	−0.430; −0.090	−0.307^***	−0.449; −0.165	−0.259^***	−0.393; −0.125	−0.325^***	−0.472; −0.178	−0.230^***	−0.448; −0.152
Education
No or below HS (ref.)
HS/some college	0.030	−0.444; 0.503	0.063	−.0404; 0.530	−0.089	−0.461; 0.283	−0.046	−0.397; 0.304	0.136	−0.250; 0.522	0.125	−0.261; 0.511
College or higher	0.150	−0.321; 0.621	0.187	−0.279; 0.652	−0.082	−0.452; 0.288	−0.037	−0.386; 0.312	0.093	−0.291; 0.477	0.095	−0.290; 0.479
Cause
Genetic (ref.)
Social environmental	0.029	−0.178; 0.236	0.210	−0.109; 0.528	0.004	−0.166; 0.174	−0.097	−0.154; 0.347	−0.086	−0.262; 0.091	0.049	−0.227; 0.325
Individual behavior	0.109	−0.098; 0.317	0.374^**	0.132; 0.617	0.163	−0.008; 0.334	0.597^***	0.408; 0.787	−0.183^*	−0.361; −0.006	0.163	−0.457; 0.373
Constant	4.527^***		4.242^***		2.766^***		2.309^***		1.681^***		1.478^***
R²	0.052		0.074		0.057		0.163		0.058		0.054
N	381		380		398		397		398		397

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