Table 1.
COVID-19 primary stress items relationship with changes in online gaming (OG) amount (in hours per week) from pre-quarantine to quarantine. Abbreviations: M = mean; SD = standard deviation; MW p-value = Mann-Whitney U-Test p-value; MAN1 p-value = MANCOVA p-value controlling for age and gender; MAN2 p-value = MANCOVA p-value controlling for age, gender, depression, and anxiety; CI = 95% confidence interval for most stringent statistically significant finding. All p-values were FDR corrected with significance assigned at p < .05. Asterisks (*) indicate a statistically significant p-value.
| Stress Factor | N Total | Yes M(SD) |
N Yes |
No M(SD) |
N No |
MW p-value |
MAN1 p-value |
MAN2 p-value |
CI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essential worker | 1269 | 2.45(7.8) | 228 | 3.32(13.3) | 1041 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 0.91 | |
| Employment | 1269 | 4.58(13) | 302 | 2.72(12.3) | 967 | 0.07 | 0.23 | 0.26 | |
| Others ill | 1266 | 3.26(11) | 464 | 3.13(13.2) | 802 | 0.87 | 0.9 | 0.91 | |
| Others severely ill | 1268 | 2.75(9.1) | 116 | 3.21(12.8) | 1152 | 0.81 | 0.92 | 0.91 | |
| Isolated alone | 1257 | 3.26(9.4) | 159 | 3.17(12.9) | 1098 | 0.87 | 0.9 | 0.91 | |
| Having children | 1266 | 1.45(9.6) | 203 | 3.49(12.9) | 1063 | <0.0001* | 0.69 | 0.7 | 0.5–3.59 |
| Poor relationship | 1109 | 3.5(14.2) | 178 | 3.18(12.7) | 931 | 0.87 | 0.92 | 0.91 | |
| Going outdoors | 1268 | 3.82(15) | 184 | 3.1(12) | 1084 | 0.66 | 0.9 | 0.91 |