What’s the Matter with Kansas?: The Development and Confirmation of the Evolutionary Attitudes and Literacy Survey (EALS)

Table 4 Latent regressions for the six higher order EALS constructs

Demographics	Political activity	Pol/religious conservatism	Knowledge/relevance	Creationist reasoning	Evolutionary misconceptions	Exposure to evolution
Male	−0.019	−0.089	0.137*	−0.048	−0.038	0.139*
HS size	0.064	−0.176**	−0.014	−0.054	0.017	0.139
Dad Edu	0.059	−0.047	0.092	−0.126*	−0.052	0.167**
Mom Edu	0.016	−0.088	0.066	−0.083	0.067	0.075
Rural	0.087	0.070	−0.014	0.013	0.086	0.052
Num Sibs	−.017	−.046	.055	.012	.008	.034
R² (demographics only)	0.023	0.068*	0.052*	0.068*	0.020	0.083*
Openness to experience	0.208***	−0.152*	0.316***	−0.248***	0.024	0.258***
Overall R²	0.064*	0.092**	0.152***	0.118***	0.015	0.168**

These are the results of latent variable regressions using Mplus 5.2. Non-bold values represent standardized regression coefficients and bold-faced values represent R². Significance is based on the Wald statistic
*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001

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