Table 4.

Predicting fear of COVID-19 and COVID-19 ASD according to background variables (N = 120)

	Fear of COVID-19					COVID-19 ASD
	B	s.e.	β	t	p	B	s.e.	β	t	p
Step 1
Age (T4)	−0.055	0.031	−0.157	−1.762	0.081	−0.059	0.018	−0.283	−3.218	0.002
Education (T4)	−0.121	0.034	−0.321	−3.583	0.001	−0.067	0.020	−0.296	−3.341	0.001
Living with Spouse (T4)	1.874	0.610	0.266	3.071	0.003	0.890	0.358	0.213	2.483	0.015
Occupational Status (T4)	0.045	0.113	0.036	0.397	0.692	0.099	0.066	0.134	1.497	0.137
Life events (T1)	0.013	0.025	0.046	0.533	0.595	0.004	0.015	0.021	0.243	0.808
Life events (T3)	−0.129	0.142	−0.079	−0.910	0.365	−0.081	0.083	−0.084	−0.977	0.331
COVID-19 exposure (T4)	0.148	0.088	0.153	1.687	0.094	0.051	0.052	0.089	0.995	0.322
Step 2
Age (T4)	−0.007	0.033	−0.020	−0.214	0.831	−0.022	0.019	−0.109	−1.208	0.230
Education (T4)	−0.101	0.034	−0.267	−2.947	0.004	−0.035	0.019	−0.156	−1.833	0.070
Living with spouse (T4)	1.277	0.589	0.181	2.167	0.033	0.541	0.329	0.129	1.645	0.103
Occupational Status (T4)	0.010	0.107	0.008	0.097	0.923	0.048	0.060	0.065	0.803	0.424
Life events (T1)	0.010	0.024	0.035	0.408	0.684	−0.008	0.014	−0.048	−0.601	0.549
Life Events (T3)	−0.242	0.137	−0.148	−1.769	0.080	−0.100	0.077	−0.103	−1.311	0.193
COVID-19 exposure (T4)	0.085	0.084	0.087	1.011	0.314	0.009	0.047	0.016	0.198	0.844
Severity of captivity (T1)	−0.073	0.025	−0.249	−2.866	0.005	−0.012	0.014	−0.067	−0.814	0.418
Solitary confinement (T1)	0.039	0.195	0.018	0.198	0.843	−0.178	0.109	−0.139	−1.634	0.105
Suffering during captivity (T1)	0.601	0.191	0.297	3.137	0.002	0.263	0.107	0.219	2.458	0.016
Appraisal of war experiences (T4)	0.429	0.165	0.224	2.608	0.010	0.49	0.092	0.431	5.335	0.000

Solitary confinement: 0 = no, 1 = Yes. Life events at T3 represent the sum of number of life events at T2 and T3. The appraisal of war experiences refers to the effect of war experiences on adjustment to COVID-19-induced lockdown and home isolation.

COVID-19 exposure, and captivity experiences among ex-POWs (N = 120).