What are the factors influencing the aversion of students towards reptiles?

Table 3 Details of the cumulative linked models elaborated to verify the effect of student’s perceptions and behaviour on her/his aversion towards the reptiles

Response variable	Predictor variable	Estimate	Std. error	z value	Pr(>\|z\|)
Aversion to the chelonian	Fear of the test species	3.085	1.022	3.018	0.00255	**
	Considers the test species to be important	−0.6114	0.57564	−1.062	0.2882
	Handled the test species	0.09372	0.40163	0.233	0.8155
	Has a pet animal	−0.0391	0.33802	−0.116	0.90783
	Previously visited an animal educational exhibitions	−0.8038	0.31957	−2.515	0.0119	*
Aversion to the lizard	Recognise the test species	−0.7738	0.3843	−2.013	0.0441	. *
	Fear of the test species	28.585	0.427	6.694	2.17E−11	***
	Considers the test species to be important	−1.235	0.5255	−2.352	0.0187	*
	Handled the test species	−0.4026	0.5939	−0.678	0.4979
	Has a pet animal	−0.351	0.3618	−0.97	0.3321
	Previously visited an animal educational exhibitions	−0.6315	0.3391	−1.862	0.0625
Aversion to the snake	Recognise the test species	−0.2571	0.8915	−0.288	0.7731
	Fear of the species	33.089	0.437	7.572	3.66E−14	***
	Considers the test species to be important	−0.3144	0.7138	−0.44	0.6596
	Handled the test species	−1.023	0.4186	−2.446	0.0144	*
	Has a pet animal	0.3848	0.3625	1.061	0.2886
	Previously visited an animal educational exhibitions	−0.4529	0.3231	−1.402	0.1609

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