The Influence of Prosocial and Antisocial Emotions on the Spread of Weibo Posts: A Study of the COVID-19 Pandemic

<table class="table-group" id="tab5"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="8"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left" rowspan="2">Independent variables</td><td class="align_center" rowspan="2">B</td><td class="align_center" rowspan="2">Standard error</td><td class="align_center" colspan="2">Hypothesis testing</td><td class="align_center" rowspan="2">Logistic likelihood</td><td class="align_center" rowspan="2">AIC</td><td class="align_center" rowspan="2">BIC</td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_center">Wald chi-square value</td><td class="align_center">Significance</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="8"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Emotion score</td><td class="align_center">7.285</td><td class="align_center">0.3695</td><td class="align_center">388.847</td><td class="align_center">0.000</td><td class="align_center" rowspan="3">−3954.988</td><td class="align_center" rowspan="3">7917.997</td><td class="align_center" rowspan="3">7941.905</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Number of fans</td><td class="align_center">0.982</td><td class="align_center">0.0258</td><td class="align_center">1444.154</td><td class="align_center">0.000</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Number of posts</td><td class="align_center">−0.581</td><td class="align_center">0.0408</td><td class="align_center">202.419</td><td class="align_center">0.000</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="8"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<div>Negative binomial regression parameter estimates (prosocial posts and number of comments).</div>

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Table 5: The Influence of Prosocial and Antisocial Emotions on the Spread of Weibo Posts: A Study of the COVID-19 Pandemic 