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Table 2 Correlations and Descriptive Statistics of Social Regulation Predictors and Mental Health Outcomes

From: Stop talking about it already! Co-ruminating and social media focused on COVID-19 was associated with heightened state anxiety, depressive symptoms, and perceived changes in health anxiety during Spring 2020

Variables

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

1 CRQ

–

         

2 SM

.03

–

        

3 Posts

.06

.26***

–

       

4 SMCOVID

.30***

.41***

.14**

–

      

5 CESD

.32***

.27***

.16**

.26***

–

     

6 STAI

.34***

.21***

.10

.32***

.73***

–

    

7 PR-HAI

.10

.12*

.09

.11*

.30***

.26***

–

   

8 C-HAI

.25***

.08

− .02

.17**

.32***

.35***

.65***

–

  

9 ULS

.19***

.19***

.12*

.11*

.58***

.43***

.18***

.20***

–

 

10 SS

− .01

− .05

− .09

− .09

− .27***

− .25***

− .14**

− .06

− .45***

–

Mean

2.54

4.35

20.64

1.70

14.70

16.01

2.48

3.01

14.39

4.04

SD

0.76

2.93

71.31

1.87

6.58

4.28

0.68

0.48

3.92

0.75

  1. For clarity, means and standard deviations of non-transformed variables are displayed
  2. CRQ co-ruminating on covid19, SM time spent on social media, SMCOVID Time spent on social media focused on covid19, CESD Depressive symptoms, STAI current anxiety, PR-HAI perceived retrospective health anxiety, C-HAI current health anxiety. ULS UCLA loneliness scale, SS social support
  3. ***p ≤ .001, **p < .01, *p < .05
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