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Published in final edited form as: Appl Psychol Health Well Being. 2022 Jan 31;14(3):734–756. doi: 10.1111/aphw.12344

TABLE 5.

Multilevel models testing associations between COVID-19-related stressors and satisfaction with life across the first year-and-a-half of the COVID-19 pandemic

Outcome: The satisfaction with life scale
Model 1.1:
Job-related
stressors only
Model 1.2:
Social/relational
stressors only
Model 1.3:
Financial
stressors only
Model 1.4:
Illness-related
stressors only
Model 1.5:
Full model
β SE β SE β SE β SE β SE
Level 2 (person level)
 Intercept 22.60*** .28 22.68*** .28 22.67*** .27 22.28*** .29 22.11*** .27
 Mean job-related stress −1.65*** .31 - - - - - - 1.53** .46
 Mean social stress - - −2.54*** .31 - - - - −1.69*** .36
 Mean financial stress - - - - −2.82*** .30 - - −3.43*** .50
 Mean illness-related stress - - - - - - −1.72*** .35 .30 .39
 Birth sex (0 = female; 1 = male) −.87 .56 −1.50** .55 −.78 .54 −1.24* .57 −1.00 .53
 Age −.03 .15 .04 .14 −.04 .14 .05 .15 <−.01 .14
 Race/ethnicity
  White NH (ref.) - - - - - - - - - -
  Asian NH −1.48* .74 −2.10** .71 −1.54* .70 −1.60* .74 −2.09** .69
  Other NH −1.90** .73 −2.21** .71 −1.41* .70 −1.92** .74 −1.57* .68
  Hispanic −1.60 1.01 −1.60 .97 −1.64 .96 − 1.43 1.01 −1.78 .93
Level 1 (month level)
 Time −.09*** .02 −.11*** .02 −.11*** .02 −.03 .02 .01 .02
 Job-related stress −.71*** .16 −.23 .24
 Social stress - - −1.58*** .13 - - - - −1.38*** .15
 Financial stress - - - - −1.24*** .19 - - −.21 .22
 Illness-related stress - - - - - - −.68*** .15 .28 .18
Interactions with time (from separate models)
 Job-related stress × time .03 .04 - - - - - - - -
 Social stress × time - - .41*** .03 - - - - - -
 Financial stress × time - - - - .32*** .04 - - - -
 Illness-related stress × time - - - - - - .24*** .04 - -

Note: Nsurveys = 3,853–3,924, Npersons = 554.

*

p < .05.

**

p < .01.

***

p < .001.