Spanish-Language News Consumption and Latino Reactions to COVID-19
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. Media Use and Source Credibility
1.2. Source Credibility and Health Behavior
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
Appendix A. Variable Construction and Summary Statistics
Variable | Observations | Mean | Std. Dev. | Min | Max |
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Trust in EL journalist | 601 | 5.418 | 3.108 | 0 | 10 |
Trust in SL journalist | 599 | 5.701 | 3.130 | 0 | 10 |
Stopping the spread of COVID-19 | 585 | 3.303 | 0.800 | 1 | 4 |
Location of nearest testing site | 582 | 2.826 | 1.036 | 1 | 4 |
Collective health | 1200 | 0.804 | 0.397 | 0 | 1 |
English-language news consumption | 1200 | 2.215 | 0.916 | 0 | 3 |
Spanish-language news consumption | 1200 | 1.942 | 1.042 | 0 | 3 |
COVID-19 news consumption | 1200 | 4.165 | 1.041 | 0 | 5 |
Age | 1200 | 2.222 | 1.012 | 1 | 4 |
Education | 1200 | 3.003 | 1.539 | 1 | 5 |
Female | 1200 | 0.520 | 0.500 | 0 | 1 |
US-born | 1200 | 0.600 | 0.490 | 0 | 1 |
SL survey | 1200 | 0.414 | 0.493 | 0 | 1 |
Partisanship | 1200 | 1.857 | 0.795 | 1 | 3 |
Cuban | 1200 | 0.083 | 0.277 | 0 | 1 |
Public risk perception | 1200 | 0.438 | 0.496 | 0 | 1 |
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(1) Trust in English-Language Journalists | (2) Trust in Spanish-Language Journalists | |||
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VARIABLES | Coefficient | SE | Coefficient | SE |
English-language news consumption | 0.068 | 0.084 | ||
Spanish-language news consumption | 0.389 *** | 0.084 | ||
COVID-19 news consumption | 0.305 *** | 0.071 | 0.552 *** | 0.083 |
Age | 0.223 *** | 0.069 | 0.093 | 0.084 |
Education | 0.191 *** | 0.049 | 0.109 ** | 0.051 |
Female | −0.525 ** | 0.232 | 0.097 | 0.259 |
US-born | 0.011 | 0.242 | 0.022 | 0.276 |
SL survey | 0.097 | 0.244 | 0.303 | 0.275 |
Partisanship (Democrat as base) | ||||
Republican | −0.511 ** | 0.240 | −0.566 ** | 0.273 |
Independent/Other | −0.746 *** | 0.237 | −0.403 | 0.262 |
Cuban | 0.230 | 0.318 | −0.255 | 0.381 |
Public risk perception | 0.192 | 0.233 | −0.391 | 0.261 |
Observations | 542 | 541 |
What to do to Stop the Spread of COVID-19 | Location of Nearest Testing Site | Collective Health | ||||||||||
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Model 3 | Model 4 | Model 5 | Model 6 | Model 7 | Model 8 | |||||||
VARIABLES | Coefficient | S.E. | Coefficient | S.E. | Coefficient | S.E. | Coefficient | S.E. | Coefficient | S.E. | Coefficient | S.E. |
Trust in EL journalist | 0.085 * | 0.044 | 0.023 | 0.045 | 0.013 | 0.045 | ||||||
Trust in SL journalist | 0.177 *** | 0.055 | 0.093 * | 0.048 | 0.094 ** | 0.045 | ||||||
COVID-19 news consumption | 0.264 ** | 0.133 | 0.567 *** | 0.130 | 0.292 ** | 0.115 | 0.403 *** | 0.110 | 0.391 *** | 0.122 | 0.011 | 0.116 |
Age | 0.246 ** | 0.124 | 0.170 | 0.132 | −0.097 | 0.136 | −0.024 | 0.143 | 0.297 ** | 0.135 | 0.125 | 0.133 |
Education | −0.080 | 0.087 | 0.030 | 0.090 | 0.040 | 0.091 | −0.025 | 0.092 | 0.037 | 0.090 | 0.168 * | 0.087 |
Female | 0.040 | 0.262 | 0.312 | 0.276 | −0.494 * | 0.254 | 0.124 | 0.268 | 0.424 | 0.260 | 0.341 | 0.249 |
US-born | 0.193 | 0.362 | 0.046 | 0.358 | 0.081 | 0.327 | 0.273 | 0.355 | −0.501 | 0.347 | 0.123 | 0.319 |
SL survey | 0.087 | 0.364 | −0.762 ** | 0.341 | 0.357 | 0.310 | 0.103 | 0.350 | −0.729 ** | 0.337 | 0.229 | 0.351 |
Partisanship | 0.147 | 0.178 | −0.042 | 0.187 | 0.485 *** | 0.181 | 0.488 *** | 0.155 | −0.591 *** | 0.168 | −0.541 *** | 0.161 |
Cuban | 0.630 | 0.511 | 0.734 | 0.631 | 0.221 | 0.544 | 0.472 | 0.392 | 1.368 ** | 0.559 | 0.083 | 0.432 |
Public risk perception | −0.496 * | 0.274 | −0.247 | 0.299 | −0.020 | 0.249 | −0.089 | 0.265 | 0.447 * | 0.259 | 0.553 ** | 0.271 |
Constant cut1 | −1.142 * | 0.692 | 0.056 | 0.904 | 0.565 | 0.756 | 1.227 * | 0.736 | ||||
Constant cut2 | 0.082 | 0.718 | 1.403 * | 0.845 | 1.587 ** | 0.754 | 2.461 *** | 0.765 | ||||
Constant cut3 | 2.272 *** | 0.750 | 3.771 *** | 0.897 | 2.915 *** | 0.783 | 4.179 *** | 0.811 | ||||
Constant | 0.400 | 0.789 | 0.511 | 0.705 | ||||||||
Observations | 270 | 264 | 270 | 263 | 542 | 541 |
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Gomez-Aguinaga, B.; Oaxaca, A.L.; Barreto, M.A.; Sanchez, G.R. Spanish-Language News Consumption and Latino Reactions to COVID-19. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 9629. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189629
Gomez-Aguinaga B, Oaxaca AL, Barreto MA, Sanchez GR. Spanish-Language News Consumption and Latino Reactions to COVID-19. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18(18):9629. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189629
Chicago/Turabian StyleGomez-Aguinaga, Barbara, Ana L. Oaxaca, Matt A. Barreto, and Gabriel R. Sanchez. 2021. "Spanish-Language News Consumption and Latino Reactions to COVID-19" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 18: 9629. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189629