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Table 3 Means and standard deviations of emotions by Republican versus Democrat-leaning counties

From: Dissonance between posts of health agencies and public comments regarding COVID-19 and vaccination on Facebook in Northern California

 

Republican-Leaning

Democrat-Leaning

Emotion

Posts M(SD)

Comments M(SD)

Posts M(SD)

Comments M(SD)

Positive Emotion

2.64 (4.54)

6.53 (15.93)

2.39 (5.53)

5.22 (12.97)

Negative Emotion

0.60 (1.22)

2.14 (7.00)

0.67 (1.61)

1.80 (7.35)

Anxiety

0.21 (0.64)

0.49 (4.05)

0.25 (0.81)

0.25 (2.03)

Anger

0.16 (0.61)

0.63 (3.96)

0.20 (1.19)

0.89 (6.10)

Sadness

0.14 (0.66)

0.34 (2.61)

0.08 (0.36)

0.18 (1.80)