The role of family communication patterns in intergenerational COVID-19 discussions and preventive behaviors: a social cognitive approach

Gong, Wanqi; Jiang, Li Crystal; Guo, Qin; Shen, Fei

doi:10.1186/s40359-023-01331-y

Table 6 Path analysis results and z-score comparison (Bootstrap N = 2000)

From: The role of family communication patterns in intergenerational COVID-19 discussions and preventive behaviors: a social cognitive approach

	Older parent-subgroup			Adult child-subgroup			z-score
	B	β	p	B	β	p	z-score
Conversation ori. → Information sharing	0.489	0.492	< 0.001	0.370	0.430	< 0.001	−1.115
Conversation ori. → Scientific discussion	0.432	0.462	< 0.001	0.297	0.336	< 0.001	−1.265
Conversation ori. → Disputed communication	0.108	0.078	0.373	0.369	0.306	< 0.001	1.648
Conversation ori. → Social distancing	0.028	0.042	0.660	0.007	0.013	0.899	−0.243
Conversation ori. → Cleanliness control	0.017	0.018	0.842	0.026	0.028	0.774	0.068
Conformity ori. → Information sharing	0.044	0.046	0.640	0.147	0.156	0.057	0.839
Conformity ori. → Scientific discussion	0.198	0.219	0.026	0.076	0.078	0.357	−1.009
Conformity ori. → Disputed communication	0.204	0.154	0.152	0.152	0.116	0.174	−0.286
Conformity ori. → Social distancing	−0.026	−0.041	0.691	−0.005	−0.009	0.924	0.244
Conformity ori. → Cleanliness control	−0.126	−0.138	0.161	−0.012	−0.012	0.888	0.910
Conversation ori. × Conformity ori. → Information sharing	−0.054	−0.052	0.596	−0.058	−0.053	0.507	−0.031
Conversation ori. × Conformity ori. → Scientific discussion	−0.042	−0.043	0.664	−0.105	−0.092	0.265	−0.467
Conversation ori. × Conformity ori. → Disputed communication	0.307	0.214	0.046	0.271	0.175	0.034	−0.180
Conversation ori. × Conformity ori. → Social distancing	0.018	0.026	0.801	−0.065	−0.093	0.296	−0.084
Conversation ori. × Conformity ori. → Cleanliness control	0.139	0.142	0.146	−0.035	−0.029	0.723	−1.267
Information sharing → Social distancing	0.011	0.016	0.888	0.036	0.057	0.608	0.241
Information sharing → Cleanliness control	0.211	0.222	0.047	0.012	0.011	0.913	−1.290
Scientific discussion → Social distancing	0.269	0.377	0.001	0.017	0.027	0.798	−2.368*
Scientific discussion → Cleanliness control	0.348	0.344	0.002	0.320	0.305	0.002	−0.184
Disputed communication → Social distancing	−0.044	−0.091	0.287	0.037	0.082	0.376	1.377
Disputed communication → Cleanliness control	−0.024	−0.035	0.668	0.125	0.163	0.059	1.715
Age → Conversation ori.	−0.014	−0.076	0.409	−0.165	−0.175	0.043	−1.810
Age → Conformity ori.	0.002	0.011	0.881	0.123	0.143	0.099	1.590
Age → Social distancing	−0.031	−0.248	0.002	0.019	0.036	0.681	1.068
Age → Cleanliness control	−0.017	−0.095	0.222	−0.033	−0.038	0.650	−0.213
Conversation ori. ↔ Conformity ori.	r = − 0.056		0.540	r = − 0.218		0.008
Conversation ori. ↔ Conversation ori. × Conformity ori.	r = − 0.090		0.505	r = − 0.005		0.954
Conformity ori. ↔ Conversation ori. × Conformity ori.	r = 0.577		0.002	r = − 0.079		0.553
Social distancing ↔ Cleanliness control	r = 0.496		< 0.001	r = 0.455		< 0.001

†p < 0.10, *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01; Model fits: χ²₍₁₄₎ = 19.643, p = 0.142; CFI = 0.986, TLI = 0.927, RMSEA = 0.040, SRMR = 0.0334; PCLOSE = 0.611.

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