Fig. 5.

Perception of risk to self and others is associated with anxiety (time 1). (a) Displayed are the Beta coefficients from a logistic regression predicting anxiety (STAI scores), which shows that those who report higher perceived relative personal risk (blue) and perceived public risk (red) reported greater anxiety. These associations are also portrayed in (b & c). Here, the Y and X axis display residuals from the same model, which includes all demographic controls. Clouds represent confidence intervals. (d) Adding sense of control (orange) to the model reveals that sense of control is the strongest factor predicting anxiety and reduces the association between perceived relative personal risk and anxiety. Indeed, a formal mediation model shows that (e) sense of control partially mediated the relationship between perceived relative personal risk and anxiety. Regressors are ordered from largest magnitude to smallest magnitude. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.001, ***p < 0.0001, Error Bars SEM