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Table 3 Direct pathways among minority groups, pandemic-related stressors and changes in mental well-being (weighted)

From: Changes in young adults' mental well-being before and during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic: disparities between ethnic groups in Germany

 

Financial worries

Health worries

Increase in discrimination

No change in discrimination

Contact with COVID-19

Minority group → stressors

 FSU/CEE

0.06 (0.08)

0.00 (0.07)

− 0.00 (0.01)

0.07 (0.04)

− 0.08 (0.04)*

 Other European/Americas

0.19 (0.09)*

0.01 (0.08)

− 0.01 (0.01)

0.09 (0.05)*

− 0.03 (0.05)

 Asia

0.09 (0.20)

0.40 (0.14)**

0.37 (0.09)***

− 0.02 (0.09)

− 0.07 (0.06)

 Turkey/ME/Africa

0.13 (0.10)

0.27 (0.09)**

0.07 (0.02)**

0.29 (0.04)***

− 0.11 (0.04)**

 

R2 = .02 *

R2 = .02*

R2 = .08**

R2 = .05***

R2 = .02***

 

Psychosomatic complaints

Anxiety

Depression

Life satisfaction

 

Stressors → well-being

 Financial worries

0.01 (0.02)

0.10 (0.02)***

0.08 (0.03)**

− 0.17 (0.07)*

 

 Health worries

0.01 (0.03)

0.21 (0.02)***

0.12 (0.03)***

− 0.06 (0.08)

 

 Increase in discrimination

0.10 (0.15)

0.17 (0.15)

0.36 (0.14)**

0.13 (0.39)

 

 No change in discrimination

0.02 (0.04)

− 0.01 (0.04)

0.03 (0.05)

− 0.14 (0.15)

 

 Contact with Covid-19

0.12 (0.06)*

0.11 (0.04)**

0.09 (0.04)*

0.12 (0.13)

 

Minority group → well-being

 FSU/CEE

− 0.06 (0.06)

− 0.05 (0.06)

− 0.02 (0.06)

− 0.03 (0.18)

 

 Other European/Americas

− 0.11 (0.07)

− 0.10 (0.07)

0.02 (0.08)

0.14 (0.26)

 

 Asia

0.23 (0.15)

0.02 (0.12)

− 0.07 (0.13)

− 0.07 (0.28)

 

 Turkey/ME/Africa

− 0.07 (0.08)

0.07 (0.07)

0.00 (0.09)

− 0.31 (0.25)

 
 

R2 = .03 **

R2 = .09***

R2 = .04***

R2 = .02*

 
  1. Table shows unstandardized coefficients and standard errors in parentheses; Minority group—The German majority is the reference category; All models control for gender, age, participants’ education, and parental occupational status; * p < .05, **p < .01, ***p < .001