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Mediation analysis Perceived self-efficacy to protect self against COVID-19 mediates 13.07% of the total effect of public trust in the government on psychological distress with 5,000 bootstrap resamples β = −0.02, SE = 0.01. Bias-corrected 95%Cl = −0.04 to -0.01.
