4.4. H3: The Impact of the Infection Target on Reactance Is Moderated by the Severity of the COVID-19 Infection
SE, infection
INFECTION
According to H3, the narrative mentioning that the person infected with COVID-19 was the protagonist’s father would induce greater reactance compared to the narrative mentioning that the infected person was the young person, especially if the infection was described as severe. The PROCESS macro (model one) was used to test this hypothesis of moderation, which yielded a non-statistically significant interaction effect (B = −0.32, SE = 0.31, 