International Journal of Bipolar Disorders

Table 6 Partial correlations between COVID-19 fears/emotional distress due to social distancing at T1 and BSI-18 scales at T2 in BD patients and healthy controls

From: Psychological symptoms during and after Austrian first lockdown in individuals with bipolar disorder? A follow-up control-group investigation

	Somatization		Depression		Anxiety		GSI
	BD	Controls	BD	Controls	BD	Controls	BD	Controls
COVID-19 fears	0.68**	− 0.06	0.43	0.27	0.53*	− 0.03	0.63**	0.08
ED-SD	0.32	0.12	0.63**	0.14	0.13	0.45	0.43	0.31

BD bipolar disorder, ED-SD emotional distress due to social distancing, GSI global symptom index
**p < 0.01, *p < 0.05 in bold letters; partial correlations were corrected for age, sex, education, and employment

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