Fig 1.
Predicted relationships among county-level COVID-related stressors, respondent-level mediators, and respondents’ mental distress.
Table 1.
Definitions of measures used in the analysis.
Table 2.
Descriptive statistics.
Table 3.
Correlation among variables used in the analysis (*p<0.05).
Fig 2.
Mean level of the variables of interest over time.
(A) Self-reported mental distress. (B) Respondent-level endogenous mediating variables (disease and financial worries and social contact). (C) County-level exogenous predictor variables (disease and financially-related stressors and social distancing). All variables were normalized to the range of 0 to 1 before averaging. Averages vary over both location and time.
Fig 3.
Path diagram showing the direct and indirect effects of county-level stressors on respondents’ mental distress.
Table 4.
Mediation analysis predicting mental distress from county-level and respondent-level variables.