Sharing political news: the balancing act of intimacy and socialization in selective exposure

EPJ Data Science

Table 5 Predictors for retweeting political news articles

Predictive variables	Agree with article	Disagree with article
F1 numexposures	0.74^∗∗∗	0.83^∗∗∗
F2 topic-interesting-me	0.16	1.23^∗
F5 topic-interesting-followers	0.22	−0.36
F6 leaning-matched-followers	−0.44^∗	1.55^∗∗
F8 mutualfriend	0.14^∗	0.52^.
F9 difference-in-followers	0.06^∗∗∗	−0.13^∗∗
F10 sharedfollowers	0.00	0.00^∗
F11 sharedfollowees	0.00	−0.01^∗
F12 sharedleaning	−0.27^∗∗∗	−1.60^∗∗

Both models pass the Goodness-of-fit tests: Agree ( $χ^{2} = 4.5227$ , p = 0.81) and Disagree ( $χ^{2} = 1.6879$ , p = 0.97). Signif. codes: 0 (^∗∗∗) 0.001 (^∗∗) 0.01 (^∗) 0.05 (.).