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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cogn Behav Ther. 2021 Feb 10;51(2):89–99. doi: 10.1080/16506073.2021.1874503

Table 2.

Total, direct, and indirect effects of perceived stress on depression, anxiety, and panic symptoms via fatigue severity.

Y Model b SE t p LLCI ULCI
1 PSS→Fatigue (a) 0.20 0.01 15.56 <0.001 0.18 0.23
Fatigue→Depression (b) 1.02 0.07 15.49 <0.001 0.89 1.15
PSS→Depression (c) 0.36 0.02 15.08 <0.001 0.32 0.41
PSS→Depression (c’) 0.16 0.02 6.51 <0.001 0.11 0.20
PSS→Depression (ab) 0.21 0.02 0.17 0.25

2 Fatigue→Anxiety (b) 0.85 0.06 13.30 <0.001 0.73 0.98
PSS→Anxiety (c) 0.39 0.02 17.49 <0.001 0.35 0.44
PSS→Anxiety (c’) 0.22 0.02 9.42 <0.001 0.17 0.27
PSS→Anxiety (ab) 0.17 0.02 0.14 0.21

3 Fatigue→Panic (b) 0.19 0.01 14.42 <0.001 0.17 0.22
PSS→Panic (c) 0.06 0.005 13.55 <0.001 0.06 0.07
PSS→Panic (c’) 0.03 0.005 5.30 <0.001 0.02 0.04
PSS→Panic (ab) 0.04 0.004 0.03 0.05

Note. →= association; a =Association of X with M; b = association of M with Y; c = Total association of X with Y; c’ = Direct association of X with Y controlling for M; ab= indirect effects of X on Y; Path a is equal in all models; therefore, it presented only in model 1. LLCI=Lower Level Confidence Interval; ULCI=Upper Level Confidence Interval; Fatigue=Brief Fatigue Inventory (BFI; Mendoza et al., 1999); PSS= Perceived Stress Scale-Modified for COVID-19 (PSS; Cohen et al., 1983); Depression= Overall Depression Severity and Impairment Scale (ODSIS; Bentley et al., 2014); Anxiety= Overall Anxiety Severity and Impairment Scale (OASIS; Norman et al., 2006); Panic= Panic Disorder Severity Scale (PDSS; Shear et al., 1997).