The variables measured were subjective fear, perceptions of dangerousness, disgustingness, uncontrollability, and unpredictability, loomingness, negative evaluation, familiarity, and learning history.
The second most consistent finding is a negative correlation between familiarity and visual complexity which is usually around.400.400
It is interesting to note the negative effects of familiarity with health staff and previous experience of the services.
Although this observation accords with findings reported by others, 14 16 17 18 Hall and colleagues 6 observed a negative effect of familiarity on ratings.
These problems are difficult to solve in the short term, which may help us to interpret the negative effect of familiarity with health staff and previous experience of the service.
There is a weak negative correlation between familiarity with spreadsheets and age (linear regression coeff. = −0.3; p < 0.05).> Only one quarter of all students are familiar with reference management software (Table 3).
In addition, items relating to uncontrollability, unpredictability, dangerousness, disgustingness, loomingness, negative evaluation, and familiarity were presented in a mixed order prior to the questions relating to fear and learning history.
Positive correlation between modal name agreement and familiarity and negative correlation between modal name agreement and visual complexity have sometimes been found but they were rarely very significant.
Also assessed were the perceived loomingness, prior familiarity, and negative evaluation of the animals as well as possible conditioning experiences.
Although overall response rate was over 93%% and only a few students declined to complete the questionnaire, students with a negative attitude and less familiarity with CAM might have not answered the questionnaire and this may have affected some results.
Second, it was hypothesised that the four vulnerability variables would account for a significant amount of the variance in fear of each of the animals beyond that accounted for by perceived loomingness and after controlling for gender, negative evaluation, and prior familiarity.
