Fig. 2.

(a) Answers to the question ‘Please indicate whether you, for yourself, are afraid of the following events’. (b) Mean score of fear of the impact of the war in Ukraine (from 0 ‘not at all’ to 3 ‘very strong’) by gender and age. (c) Answers to the question ‘Which statements apply to you regarding the Ukraine crisis?’ (modified Peritraumatic Distress Inventory). *Items summarised to ‘emotional distress’; ^†items summarised to ‘physical distress’. (d) Mean score of emotional and physical distress subscales related to the war in Ukraine (from 0 ‘Not at all true’ to 4 ‘Extremely true’). Lines in (b) and (d) were obtained using ggplot with the mgcv library in R, with splines for age, identity link and normal distribution for the outcome variables.