Table 2.

Associations of COVID-19 events with health behaviors (results are p-values for Fisher’s exact tests; for continuous loneliness variable t-test was used).

	Working from home	Financial changes	Essential worker	Social distancing behaviors	Loneliness during COVID-19 (t-test)
	φ	φ	φ	φ	t
Making healthy or low-calorie food choices	0.131	−0.061	0.045	0.172	0.64
Eating when stressed	0.316*	−0.078	0.023	0.270	−4.62***
Eating when bored	0.351*	−0.060	0.045	0.276	−3.14**
Limiting the amount or types of food in the house	0.345*	0.197	−0.111	0.087	−0.47
Being physically active	0.131	0.035	−0.037	0.238	−3.19**
Limiting time spent sitting or lying down	0.131	0.035	−0.037	0.191	−1.58
Writing down or tracking calorie or food intake	0.059	−0.096	−0.083	0.106	−0.63
Keeping a consistent schedulea	0.075	0.104	0.009	0.142	−1.29

Working from home: Eating when stressed: p = 0.029.

Eating when bored: p = 0.014.

Limiting foods in the household: p = 0.015.

COVID-19 loneliness: Eating when stressed: p < 0.001.

Eating when bored: p = 0.002.

Being physically active: p = 0.002.

^an = 54 due to one participant with missing data. Fisher’s exact tests were used for categorical variables; phi was used to describe effect size. Loneliness was a continuous variable; as such, a t-test was used. All Levene’s tests indicated equality of variance.

^*p < 0.05.

^**p < 0.01.

^***p < 0.001.