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. 2020 Jun 29;174(12):1184–1190. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.1876

Table 2. Means and Correlations for All Study Variables.

Variable (No.) Mean (SD) Variable No., correlation
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Sex (1) NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Age, y (2) 16.3 (1.10) −0.02 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
White (3) NA −0.00 −0.01 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Hispanic (4) NA −0.06 0.07a −0.28b NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Financial strain (5)c 2.59 (0.73) −0.02 0.01 0.10b −0.18b NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Parent educational level (6)d 2.59 (0.68) 0.01 0.03 0.19b −0.19b 0.30b NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Ideology (7)e 3.64 (1.05) 0.12b −0.00 0.03 −0.08a 0.04 0.07 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Social responsibility (8)f 4.26 (0.72) 0.13b 0.04 0.07a 0.02 −0.02 0.06 0.17b NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
COVID-19 attitudes (9)g 5.13 (1.28) 0.09a 0.11b 0.03 −0.05 0.10b 0.11b 0.25b 0.31b NA NA NA NA NA NA
Social trust (10)g 3.92 (1.24) −0.01 0.06 0.01 −0.08a 0.08a 0.12b 0.01 0.12b 0.06 NA NA NA NA NA
Self-interest (11)f 2.57 (0.88) 0.01 0.01 −0.11b 0.06 −0.08a −0.02 −0.10b −0.11b −0.09a −0.02 NA NA NA NA
Self-distancing (12)h 4.39 (0.65) 0.13b −0.02 −0.13b −0.00 0.04 0.00 0.13b 0.10b 0.21b 0.03 −0.09a NA NA NA
Disinfecting (13)i 3.41 (1.02) 0.09b 0.09a −0.02 0.10b 0.03 −0.02 0.03 0.28b 0.22b −0.02 0.02 0.03 NA NA
Hoarding (14)j 1.31 (0.74) 0.01 −0.03 −0.12b 0.05 −0.00 −0.03 0.03 −0.07 0.05 −0.10b 0.09a 0.00 0.01 NA
News monitoring (15)k 3.74 (0.98) 0.03 0.01 −0.02 0.06 −0.07 −0.04 0.03 0.21b 0.27b −0.01 −0.04 0.11b 0.27b 0.12b

Abbreviations: COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019; NA, not applicable.

a

P < .05, calculated using 2-tailed bivariate correlations.

b

P < .01, calculated using 2-tailed bivariate correlations.

c

Scores ranged from 1 (having a hard time buying the things the family needs) to 4 (having enough money to buy almost anything the family wants), with higher scores indicating lower financial strain.

d

Scored as neither parent completed high school (1), at least 1 parent completed high school (2), and at least 1 parent completed college (3).

e

Scored from very conservative (1 point) to very liberal (5 points) with an option to indicate “I don’t know.”

f

Scores ranged from not at all important (1 point) to extremely important (5 points).

g

Scores ranged from strongly disagree (1 point) to strongly agree (7 points).

h

Scores ranged from not at all (1 point) to very often (5 points) for the frequency at which they spent time in person with friends, extended family, teachers, neighbors, and any other person who did not live with them in the past 7 days.

i

Scores ranged from not at all (1 point) to multiple times a day (6 points).

j

Scores ranged from not at all (1 point) to very often (5 points).

k

Scores ranged from not at all (1 point) to a great deal (5 points).