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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Sep 13.
Published before final editing as: Stigma Health. 2024 Aug 5:10.1037/sah0000555. doi: 10.1037/sah0000555

Table 3.

Bivariate Associations with COVID-19 Stigma Scale Scores

  Negative Attitudes toward people with COVID-19 (n=300) Perceived Community stigma faced by people with COVID-19 (n=291)
  Estimate (95% CI) p-value* Estimate (95% CI) p-value*
Conceptually Related Constructs
Anticipated stigma around COVID-19 testing 0.25 (0.19, 0.31) <0.001 0.25 (0.18, 0.32) <0.001
Daily discrimination −0.01 (−0.08, 0.05) 0.734 0.183 (0.10, 0.25) <0.001
Lifetime discrimination −0.17 (−0.44, 0.09) 0.203 0.18 (−0.14, 0.50 0.262
Number of COVID-19 related challenges 0.08 (−0.14, 0.30) 0.489 0.34 (0.08, 0.61) 0.010
Number of trusted sources of COVID-19 info 0.07 (−0.02, 0.15) 0.108 −0.01 (−0.11, 0.09) 0.905
 
Socio-Demographic Characteristics
Age 0.034 (0.01, 0.06) 0.001 −0.00 (−0.03, 0.02) 0.908
Female sex (ref=male) −0.81 (−1.56, −0.06) 0.035 −0.25 (−1.15, 0.64) 0.575
Rarely/never attend religious services (ref=monthly or more) −0.23 (−1.04, −0.58) 0.572 −0.69 (−1.60, 0.22) 0.138
Political affiliation strong democrat (ref=all other) 0.46 (−0.21, 1.13) 0.175 −0.23 (−1.02, 0.56) 0.573
Essential worker (ref=no) −1.12(−1.92, −0.32) 0.006 −0.44 (−1.39, 0.52) 0.368
Urban (ref=rural) 1.51 (0.69, 2.33) 0.000 1.17 (0.18, 2.16) 0.021
*

Boldface indicates statistical significance