The Influence of Media Information Sources on Preventive Behaviors in China: After the Outbreak of COVID-19 Pandemic

Table 10

Relationship between the frequency of the audience’s exposure to COVID-19 vaccine information through news media platforms and their COVID-19 risk perception, vaccine efficacy awareness, and preventive behaviors.

	1	2	3
(1) Risk perception	—
(2) Efficacy awareness	0.119	—
(3) Preventive behaviors	0.186	0.296	—
(4) State-controlled news media	0.071	0.239	0.363
(5) Local news media	0.095	0.182	0.388
(6) Commercial news media	0.052	0.144	0.305
(7) Weixin official accounts	0.059	0.144	0.321
(8) Weixin moments	0.094	0.215	0.314
(9) Weibo	0.080	0.108	0.245