. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Mar 1.

Published in final edited form as: Psychol Sex Orientat Gend Divers. 2022 May 26;11(1):139–152. doi: 10.1037/sgd0000585

Table 5.

Associations Between Cumulative COVID News Exposure and Changes in Internalizing Symptoms and Substance Use

Predictor	Outcome	β	p
Cumulative COVID news exposure	COVID Distress	.25	< .001
	Depression	.15	< .001
	Anxiety	.23	< .001
	Alcohol Consequences	.003	.95
	Cannabis Consequences	−.04	.51

Cumulative COVID news exposure was operationalized as the sum of COVID news exposure across all days in the daily diary study. Control variables included: proportion of daily diary days completed, outcome at baseline, age at baseline, months since the beginning of the pandemic at the first daily diary, sexual identity, gender identity, and race/ethnicity.