Table 2.

Logistic regression for identifying predictors of using social media.

	p	Sig.	Confidence Interval 95%
			Lower bound	Upper bound
Intercept	3.71	0.004	1.05	13.08
Time to exposure, ref. week March 30–April 8
Week April 15–April 9	1.37	0.172	0.87	2.16
Week April 16–April 22	1.08	0.745	0.64	1.82
Week April 23–April 29	1.58	0.118	0.88	2.82
Week April 30–May 4	1.28	0.474	0.64	2.56
Quarantine, yes	0.027	0.702	−0.110	0.163
Geographic area, ref. southern Italy
Northern region	0.98	0.858	0.79	1.204
Central region	0.464	0.002	0.23	0.91
Islands	0.94	0.631	0.75	1.18
Gender, female ref.	1.08	0.417	0.89	1.31
Healthcare worker	1.139	0.293	0.86	1.45
Being infected by COVID	0.927	0.695	0.63	1.34
Pre-existing mental disorder	0.864	0.489	0.572	1.305
Pre-existing physical disorder	1.011	0.929	0.78	1.30
Age group, ref. over 65 years old
18–24 years old	0.88	0.758	0.39	1.97
25–55 years old	0.75	0.389	0.39	1.44
55–64 years old	0.70	0.311	0.35	1.38
DASS-stress
Mild	0.85	0.246	0.65	1.11
Moderate	0.84	0.223	0.64	1.10
Severe	1.15	0.570	0.69	1.92
DASS-anxiety
Mild	0.94	0.680	0.72	1.23
Moderate	0.92	0.551	0.70	1.20
Severe	1.08	0.319	0.57	1.92
DASS-depression
Mild	0.95	0.732	0.72	1.24
Moderate	1.26	0.005	0.99	1.59
Severe	1.05	0.724	−0.77	1.23
Resilience level	1.01	0.582	0.99	1.01
Avoidant coping	1.01	0.615	0.96	1.06
Approach coping	0.98	0.357	0.94	1.01
GHQ total	1.01	0.438	0.98	1.03
Insomnia, yes	0.88	0.216	0.72	1.07
Loneliness total score	1.09	0.329	0.91	1.30
Stress symptoms	1.00	0.411	0.98	1.03
Sidas total score	1.01	0.085	0.99	1.02
Civil_status, divorced
Single	0.74	0.104	0.51	1.06
With partner/married	0.81	0.220	0.58	1.13
Widow	1.63	0.375	0.55	4.85
Cases COVID	0.99	0.312	0.99	1.00
Death COVID	1.00	0.292	0.99	1.00
Smart working, yes	0.905	0.325	0.74	1.10
Student, yes	0.72	0.029	0.53	0.96
Lost job, yes	0.76	0.124	0.53	1.07