TABLE 1.

Descriptive statistics of the test variables.

					Range
Variable	M	SD	Skew	Kurtosis	Actual	Potential
Conscientiousness	44.57	8.44	–0.23	–0.54	23–60	12–60
Openness	44.95	8.16	–0.41	–0.05	18–60	12–60
Trait anxiety	29.81	8.98	–0.03	–0.61	10–50	10–50
Reasoninga	7.73	3.61	0.18	–0.58	0–16	0–16
State anxiety time 1	11.47	3.76	0.66	0.25	6–24	6–24
State anxiety time 2	10.89	3.57	0.85	0.94	6–24	6–24
State anxiety (mean)	11.18	3.32	0.75	0.85	6–24	6–24
COVID-19 anxiety time 1	5.62	1.97	–0.29	–0.75	1–10	1–10
COVID-19 anxiety time 2	5.53	1.96	–0.34	–0.64	1–10	1–10
COVID-19 anxiety (mean)	5.58	1.84	–0.29	–0.55	1–10	1–10
COVID-19 anxiety time 3	5.01	1.96	–0.14	–0.89	1–10	1–10

Descriptives from the demographical variables, which can be found in Methods, are excluded from the table. State anxiety (mean) consists of the averaged score from State anxiety time 1 and State anxiety time 2. COVID-19 anxiety (mean) consists of the averaged score from COVID-19 anxiety time 1 and COVID-19 anxiety time 2. 1 = prescreening 1; time 2 = baseline; 3 = follow-up. ^aStems from the second prescreening round.