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. 2021 Mar 26;66:613057. doi: 10.3389/ijph.2021.613057

TABLE 3.

Negative emotions and risk perception stratified for 1 (during the peak of COVID-19) and 2 (after the resuming of work).

Period 1 (Mean ± SD) Period 2 (Mean ± SD) F p ηρ2
Risk perception 37.63 ± 9.51 34.83 ± 9.78 9.446 0.002 0.018
Impatience 1.58 ± 0.84 1.65 ± 0.86 2.281 0.132 0.004
Sadness 1.51 ± 0.83 1.40 ± 0.73 0.493 0.483 0.001
Upset 1.75 ± 0.91 1.81 ± 0.93 1.173 0.279 0.002
Tension 1.92 ± 0.90 1.51 ± 0.81 22.739 0.000 0.042
Guilt 1.31 ± 0.64 1.23 ± 0.56 1.740 0.188 0.003
Fear 1.61 ± 0.84 1.29 ± 0.62 19.596 0.000 0.036
Worry 1.50 ± 0.83 1.32 ± 0.70 5.117 0.024 0.010

In the Multivariate Analysis of Variance, gender, occupation and dispatch were controlled as concomitant variable; ηρ2 (partial eta squared) is the variance explained by a given variable of the variance remaining after excluding variance explained by other predictors.