Parental regret regarding children’s vaccines—The correlation between anticipated regret, altruism, coping strategies and attitudes toward vaccines

Table 2 Pearson correlations between research variables

	Descriptive Statistics	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
1. Age	Mean = 36.17 (SD 7.25)	-.279^*	.391^***	.151^*	-.143^*	-.114	.058	-.014	.003	-.029
2. Gender	N = 282 (89.8 %)		-.141^*	-.053	.234^***	.131^*	.012	-.022	.138^*	.120^*
3. Number of children	Mean = 2.06 (SD = 1.05)			-.012	-.192^***	-.176^**	.097	-.113^*	.081	.014
4. Years of education	Mean = 16.67 (SD = 2.66)				.119^*	.057	-.019	.135^*	-.068	-.072
5. Emotional support	Mean = 6.63 (SD = 1.49)					.475^***	-.011	.156^**	.056	-.041
6. Instrumental support	Mean = 6.54 (SD = 1.23)						.095	.112^*	.042	-.111
7. Altruism	Mean = 3.07 (SD = 0.47)							-.099	.132^*	.076
8. ATV^a	Mean = 2.68 (SD = 0.37)								-.168^**	-.511^***
9. Anticipated regret	Mean = 2.97 (SD = 1.69)									.263^***
10. Regret	Mean = 2.97 (SD = 1.69)