Table 3.

Indirect effects in the relationship between gender and psychological distress (GHQ-12) in participants without diagnostic tests for COVID-19 (n=3801)

	Index of moderated mediation	B	BootSE (HC4)	95% CI
				BootLL	BootUL
(1) Gender → SOC*Age → GHQ	0.002		0.001	0.001	0.004
25 years (age-low)		0.317	0.052	0.216	0.419
39 years (age-middle)		0.346	0.054	0.237	0.454
55 years (age-high)		0.380	0.060	0.258	0.499
(2) Gender → Concern for infection → GHQ-12		0.050	0.016	0.021	0.085
(3) Gender → SOC → Concern for infection → GHQ-12		0.004	0.002	0.001	0.008
(4) Gender → Concern for infection → Concern about infecting others → GHQ-12		0.011	0.004	0.004	0.020
(5) Gender → SOC → Concern for infection → Concern about infecting others → GHQ-12		0.001	0.001	0.001	0.002

BootLL, lower limit; BootSE (HC4), heteroscedasticity-consistent covariance matrix estimators HC4; BootUL, upper limit; GHQ-12, General Health Questionnaire-12; SOC, Sense of Coherence.