Figure 1.

Conceptual framework showing hypothesized associations between perceived trust in sources of COVID-19 information and mental health (A); including hypothesized mediation by COVID-19 related stressors (B). In the mediation model, “a” denotes the predictor’s direct effect on the mediator, “b” denotes the mediator’s direct effect on the outcome variable, “c” denotes the predictor’s direct effect on the outcome, and “c′” denotes the predictor’s direct effect on the outcome after controlling for the predictor’s indirect effect on the outcome via the mediator.