Chinese public’s knowledge, perceived severity, and perceived controllability of COVID-19 and their associations with emotional and behavioural reactions, social participation, and precautionary behaviour: a national survey

Table 5 The association between knowledge, perceived severity, perceived controllability about the COVID-19 and emotional and behavioural reactions, social participation, and precautionary behaviour

	Neg.		Pos.		Sleep.		Agg.		SU		MPU		Soc. P.		Pre. B
	B	S.E.	B	S.E.	B	S.E.	B	S.E.	B	S.E.	B	S.E.	B	S.E.	B	S.E.
Sex	.06^*	.02	.06^*	.03	−.02	.03	−.02	.03	−.06^*	.03	.07^*	.04	−.04	.03	.19^***	.02
Age	.00	.00	.01^**	.00	.00	.00	−.01^**	.00	−.01^**	.00	−.01^*	.00	.01^***	.00	−.01^***	.00
Phy.history	−.01	.04	.02	.05	−.01	.05	−.06	.05	−.02	.05	−.15^*	.07	.10	.06	−.07^*	.04
Psy.history	−.02	.11	.08	.15	−.41^***	.12	−.04	.14	−.07	.13	−.05	.16	−.03	.15	.13	.11
Health con.	−.13^***	.01	.01	.02	−.14^***	.02	−.10^***	.02	−.07^***	.02	−.11^***	.02	.10^***	.02	.12^***	.01
Education	.07^***	.01	−.04^*	.02	.08^***	.02	.10^***	.02	.10^***	.02	.08^***	.02	.07^***	.02	.07^***	.01
Rel. w. COVID-19	−.00	.07	.04	.08	−.03	.09	−.02	.08	−.09	.08	.09	.10	−.05	.08	−.06	.08
PerS	.34^***	.03	.22^***	.03	.10^***	.03	.01	.03	−.01	.03	.47^***	.04	−.04	.03	.36^***	.03
PerC	−.06^***	.02	−.08^***	.02	−.04	.02	−.00	.02	.01	.02	−.00	.03	.05^*	.02	.09^***	.02
Know	−.01	.02	−.03	.03	.03	.03	.00	.03	.00	.03	−.02	.03	.28^***	.03	.24^***	.02
R²	11.1%^***		3.3%^***		3.3%^***		2.8%^***		1.9%^***		7.1%^***		6.8%^***		22.5%^***

Note. Phy.history self-reported history of chronic physical diseases, Psy.history self-reported history of psychiatric / psychological disorder, Health con. self-reported current physical health condition, Rel. w. COVID-19 = relationship with the COVID-19, PerS = perceived severity; PerC perceived controllability, Know knowledge about the COVID-19, Neg. negative emotion, Pos. positive emotion, Sleep sleep problems, Agg. aggression, SU substance use, MPU mobile phone use, Soc. P. social participation; Pre. B precautionary behaviour. *p < .05; ** p < .01; *** p < .001

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