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. 2020 Mar 6;17(5):1729. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17051729

Table 1.

Association between demographic variables and the psychological impact of the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak as well as adverse mental health status during the epidemic (n = 1210).

Variables N (%) Impact of event Stress Anxiety Depression
R-Squared (R2) Adjusted R-Squared (AR2) Beta (95% Confidence Interval) B (95% CI) R2 AR2 B (95%CI) R2 AR2 B (95% CI) R2 AR2 B (95% CI)
Gender
Male 396 (32.7) 0.005 0.005 −0.20 * (−0.35 to −0.05) 0.004 0.004 0.10 * (0.02 to 0.19) 0.006 0.005 0.19 ** (0.05 to 0.33) 0.004 0.003 0.12 * (0.01 to 0.23)
Female 814 (67.3) Reference Reference Reference Reference
Age (Years)
(12–21.4) 344 (28.4) 0.009 0.006 0.21 (−0.20 to 0.62) 0.011 0.007 0.08 (−0.16 to 0.32) 0.007 0.004 0.10 (−0.28 to 0.48) 0.013 0.009 0.06 (−0.25 to 0.37)
(21.4–30.8) 643 (53.1) 0.09 (−0.31 to 0.50) 0.12 (−0.12 to 0.36) 0.07 (−0.31 to 0.44) 0.18 (−0.12 to 0.47)
(30.8–40.2) 94 (7.8) −0.17 (−0.64 to 0.29) −0.07 (−0.35 to 0.20) −0.16 (−0.59 to 0.27) −0.06 (−0.41 to 0.28)
(40.2–49.6) 90 (7.4) −0.16 (−0.63 to 0.30) −0.12 (−0.39 to 0.16) −0.23 (−0.67 to 0.20) −0.16 (−0.51 to 0.19)
(49.6–59) 39 (3.2) Reference Reference Reference Reference
Status as a parent
Has a child 16 years or under 234 (19.3) 0.001 <0.001 0.04 (−0.16 to 0.25) 0.002 <0.001 −0.02 (−0.14 to 0.10) 0.003 0.001 0.08 (−0.11 to 0.27) 0.002 0.001 0.05 (−0.10 to 0.20)
Has a child older than 16 years 581 (48.1) −0.06 (−0.22 to 0.10) −0.07 (−0.17 to 0.02) −0.08 (−0.23 to 0.07) −0.06 (−0.18 to 0.06)
No children 395 (32.6) Reference Reference Reference Reference
Marital status
Single 273 (22.6) 0.002 −0.001 −0.04 (−1.46 to 1.38) 0.003 0.001 0.02 (−0.81 to 0.86) 0.003 <0.001 0.71 (−0.61 to 2.03) 0.003 <0.001 0.45 (−0.60 to 1.51)
Married 925 (76.4) 0.09 (−1.33 to 1.50) 0.12 (−0.71 to 0.96) 0.80 (−0.51 to 2.12) 0.56 (−0.50 to 1.61)
Divorced/separated 9 (0.7) 0.11 (−1.52 to 1.74) <0.001 (−0.96 to 0.96) 0.44 (−1.07 to 1.96) 0.44 (−0.77 to 1.66)
Widowed 3 (0.2) Reference Reference Reference Reference
Household size
Six people or more 171 (14.1) 0.002 <0.001 0.38 (−0.39 to 1.14) 0.002 <0.001 −0.23 (−0.68 to 0.22) <0.001 −0.002 −0.17 (−0.87 to 0.54) 0.002 <0.001 −0.19 (−0.76 to 0.38)
Three to five people 976 (80.7) 0.25 (−0.49 to 0.99) −0.20 (−0.63 to 0.24) −0.12 (−0.81 to 0.57) −0.09 (−0.64 to 0.47)
Two people 52 (4.3) 0.41 (−0.40 to 1.22) −0.33 (−0.81 to 0.15) −0.18 (−0.93 to 0.58) −0.21 (−0.82 to 0.39)
One person 11 (0.9) Reference Reference Reference Reference
Employment status
Unemployed 67 (5.5) 0.009 0.006 0.13 (−0.19 to 0.45) 0.007 0.004 0.12 (−0.07 to 0.31) 0.007 0.003 0.21 (−0.09 to 0.51) 0.005 0.001 0.16 (−0.08 to 0.40)
Farmers 24 (2) −0.08 (−0.59 to 0.43) 0.003 (−0.30 to 0.30) 0.07 (−0.41 to 0.54) −0.07 (−0.45 to 0.31)
Retired 7 (0.6) −0.76 (−1.69 to 0.17) −0.37 (−0.92 to 0.18) −0.54 (−1.41 to 0.32) −0.48 (−1.18 to 0.21)
Student 639 (52.8) 0.20 * (0.05 to 0.35) 0.11 * (0.02 to 0.19) 0.16 * (0.02 to 0.30) 0.08 * (−0.03 to 0.19)
Employed 473 (39.1) Reference Reference Reference Reference
Educational attainment
None 2 (0.2) 0.008 0.003 −0.07 (−1.88 to 1.74) 0.004 −0.001 0.76 (−0.30 to 1.83) 0.004 −0.001 1.02 (−0.66 to 2.71) 0.008 0.003 1.81 ** (0.46 to 3.16)
Primary school 8 (0.7) −1.07 *(−2.09 to −0.06) −0.11 (−0.71 to 0.49) −0.10 (−1.05 to 0.84) −0.07 (−0.82 to 0.69)
Lower secondary school 55 (4.5) 0.21 (−0.42 to 0.84) 0.20 (−0.17 to 0.57) 0.38 (−0.21 to 0.96) 0.41 (−0.06 to 0.88)
Upper secondary school 81 (6.7) 0.01 (−0.59 to 0.61) 0.16 (−0.20 to 0.51) 0.36 (−0.19 to 0.92) 0.34 (−0.11 to 0.79)
University—Bachelors 805 (66.5) 0.19 (−0.35 to 0.73) 0.21 (−0.11 to 0.53) 0.32 (−0.18 to 0.82) 0.35 (−0.05 to 0.75)
University—Masters 238 (19.7) 0.14 (−0.42 to 0.69) 0.18 (−0.15 to 0.51) 0.24 (−0.28 to 0.76) 0.33 (−0.09 to 0.74)
University—Doctorate 21 (1.7) Reference Reference Reference Reference

* p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01.