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. 2021 Dec 5:gbab197. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbab197

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Figure 1. — Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) stress × Age × Race cross-level interaction predicting daily anxiety. Low and high COVID-19 stress were operationalized as 1 SD below and above the mean, respectively. The lines for younger and older adults represent 1 SD below and above the mean age, respectively. Separate models conducted for Black American or White participants on daily reports of anxiety symptoms revealed that there were age differences in reactivity to COVID-19 stress for White participants (b = 0.003, SE = 0.001, p = .001), but not Black American participants (b = −0.0003, SE = 0.001, p = .846). The reactivity slopes for the Black American participants were significantly steeper than for the White Americans, suggesting that experiencing stress related to COVID-19 was consistently worse for anxiety symptomatology in Black American participants regardless of age.