Table 3.

Latent mean analysis between the two groups.

Category	Latent means difference/Significant probability		Cohen’s d
	General population (n = 2000)	Patients with schizophrenia (n = 1340)
COVID-19 Fear	0	−0.506**	0.60
COVID-19 Stress	0	−0.793***	0.97
Loneliness	0	0.371**	0.57
Depression	0	0.264*	0.29

*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.

${\mathrm{Cohen}}^{\prime }\mathrm{s}\mathrm{d}=\frac{\mathrm{group}1\mathrm{latent}\mathrm{mean}-\mathrm{group}2\mathrm{latent}\mathrm{mean}}{\sqrt{\mathrm{common}\mathrm{factor}\mathrm{variance}\mathrm{of}\mathrm{two}\mathrm{groups}}}$