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Table 10 Negative emotional wellbeing outcomes by worry group (simple classification)

From: Functional and dysfunctional fear of COVID-19: a classification scheme

  Dependent variable
Emotion score
(1) (2)
Functional worry 0.968 (0.022) 0.985 (0.027)
p = 0.145 p = 0.586
Dysfunctional worry 1.212 (0.022) 1.204 (0.027)
p = 0.000*** p = 0.000***
Had COVID -19   0.982 (0.031)
p = 0.550
Affected by COVID-19   1.056 (0.016)
p = 0.0005***
Age 25–44   0.959 (0.029)
p = 0.149
Age 45–64   0.889 (0.031)
p = 0.0002***
Age 65+   0.816 (0.043)
p = 0.00001***
Female   1.004 (0.022)
p = 0.842
White   1.099 (0.039)
p = 0.015**
Key worker   1.010 (0.004)
p = 0.019**
Cardiff   0.956 (0.046)
p = 0.329
Edinburgh   0.912 (0.048)
p = 0.057*
Glasgow   0.977 (0.046)
p = 0.621
Leeds   1.001 (0.046)
p = 0.984
Liverpool   0.955 (0.048)
p = 0.338
London   0.990 (0.048)
p = 0.840
Manchester   1.011 (0.048)
p = 0.826
Newcastle   1.026 (0.048)
p = 0.590
Sheffield   0.910 (0.049)
p = 0.056*
Constant 14.312 (0.016) 13.654 (0.134)
p = 0.000*** p = 0.000***
Observations 1067 786
Log Likelihood − 2479.504 − 1647.208
theta 177.845* (105.666) 133,269.500 (1,263,562.000)
Akaike Inf. Crit. 4965.008 3334.417
  1. * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001