Stigmatization in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: a survey experiment using attribution theory and the familiarity hypothesis

Table 2 Correlations and descriptive statistics of respondents’ characteristics (N_Participants = 4,059)

Respondent characteristic	Pearson’s correlation coefficients						Descriptives
	1	2	3	4	5	6	M	SD	*Min*	*Max*
1: Female (Ref. Male)	1.00						1.49	0.50	0	1
2: Age	0.03	1.00					45.68	15.49	18	74
3: Self-reported COVID-19 knowledge^‡	0.07^***	-0.09^***	1.00				7.19	1.86	0	10
4: COVID-19 knowledge test^‡	0.08^***	0.05^***	0.21^***	1.00			7.16	1.21	0	8
5: Vicarious experience (Ref. None)	0.01	-0.07^***	0.05^**	-0.05^**	1.00		0.09	0.28	0	1
6: Anonymity perceptions	0.07^***	0.14^***	0.15^***	0.18^***	0.03	1.00	6.19	1.39	0	7

Notes: *p < .05, **p < .01, *** p < .001. M Mean, SD Standard deviation, Min Minimum, Max Maximum. ^‡Before transformation

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