Table 5. SEM results for social isolation, concerns and teleworking.

	(I)	(II)
A—Social Isolation
Concern with economy	0.095***	0.041
	(0.018)	(0.035)
General concern	-0.056**	0.019
	(0.017)	(0.023)
Teleworking		0.044*
		(0.020)
Controls
- Gender (female)	+	.
- Age group (65+)	+	.
- Higher education	+	.
- Residence area (Lisbon)	-	-
B—Concern with economy
Negative present impact	0.071***	0.053***
	(0.011)	(0.013)
Controls
- Gender (female)	.	.
- Age group (65+)	+	+
- Higher education	+	.
- Residence area (Lisbon)	.	+
C—General concern
Follow news closely	0.327***	0.267***
	(0.028)	(0.039)
Controls
- Gender (female)	+	+
- Age group (65+)	+	+
- Higher education	+	-
- Residence area (Lisbon)	.	.

*,**, *** indicate significance at 10%, 5%, and 1% level, respectively; (standard error).

Note: All dependent variables of interest are binary variables. Concern with economy indicates whether the respondent was concerned or very concerned with the pandemic’s impact on the Portuguese economy; general concern indicates whether the respondent was concerned or very concerned with the pandemic in Portugal; social isolation indicates whether the respondent reported having adopted social isolation; negative present impact indicates whether the respondent reported to already feeling high or very high negative impact of the pandemic in the financial situation of the household; follow news closely indicates whether the respondent follows news frequently or very frequently; finally, teleworking indicates whether the participant is working from home or not at the time of the survey. For the controls, the sign indicates the sign of the coefficient, if no sign is presented the coefficient was not statistically significant. In this model, factor variables were modified into binary, such that Age group indicates subjects older than 65 years old and Residence Area indicates subjects living in Lisbon.