Table 4.

Means, standard deviations (s.d.) and correlations between the three main predictors (preference for solitude, identified and external motivation for solitude), study covariates, and ill-being at Time 1 (T1), Time 2 (T2) and Time 3 (T3). dx = diagnosis or self-diagnosis.

	M	s.d.	preference for solitude	identified motivation	external motivation	Time 1 ill-being	Time 2 ill-being	Time 3 ill-being
1. Gender	—	—	0.05	0.12**	−0.01	−0.01	0.03	0.03
2. Age	53.05	12.00	−0.10**	−0.05	−0.08*	−0.21**	−0.18**	−0.15**
3. T1 subjective health	3.80	0.95	−0.07*	−0.01	−0.08*	−0.39**	−0.33**	−0.33**
4. T1 in-person social	4.06	1.43	−0.16**	0.02	0.10**	−0.18**	−0.12**	−0.13**
5. T2 in-person social	2.80	1.73	−0.07	−0.07	−0.03	−0.02	−0.07	−0.06
6. T3 in-person social	2.16	1.60	0.03	0.00	−0.06	−0.04	−0.09*	−0.08*
7. T1 virtual social	4.00	1.19	−0.15**	0.05	0.05	−0.08*	0.02	0.01
8. T2 virtual social	4.07	1.22	−0.13**	0.07	0.04	−0.10**	−0.01	−0.04
9. T3 virtual social	4.00	1.27	−0.11**	0.10**	0.02	−0.09*	−0.01	−0.02
10. T2 stressor checklist	1.18	1.07	0.00	0.00	0.05	0.25**	0.30**	0.29**
11. T3 stressor checklist	1.13	1.00	0.02	0.03	0.14**	0.24**	0.29**	0.32**
12. T2 health anxiety	1.87	0.62	0.04	0.13**	0.27**	0.40**	0.60**	0.55**
13. T3 health anxiety	1.86	0.63	−0.01	0.11**	0.25**	0.41**	0.56**	0.61**
14. T2 COVID-19 dx	0.02	0.16	0.05	0.05	−0.02	0.10**	0.11**	0.10**
15. T3 COVID-19 dx	0.05	0.21	0.03	0.03	0.09*	0.12**	0.14**	0.17**
16. T1 ill-being	2.84	1.24	0.03	−0.12**	0.26**		0.77**	0.77**
17. T2 ill-being	2.84	1.30	−0.01	−0.04	0.31**			0.89**
18. T3 ill-being	2.85	1.34	−0.05	−0.05	0.30**

*p < 0.05; **p < 0.001.