## 3 Results
### Psychological Characteristics of the Sample  
We investigated the following psychological measures: locus of control, self efficacy, virtual sense of community, social connectedness, risk propensity, and different dimensions of well-being: eudaimonic well-being, hedonic and cognitive well-being, and hedonic and affective well-being (Table 1, in Appendix A) were tested in the sample (\(n=1556\)) during the period of time that went from April 6 th to April 12 th; in other words, when the COVID-19 emergency in Italy was at its peak, and the subjects in the sample were still facing the lockdown period without yet knowing when it would have ended. We tested the relations between continuous socio-demographic and psychological characteristic of the sample, in particular, in relation to age, education, income, and household size, \begin{table}
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**Continuous Dimensions** & **Mean** & **S.D.** & **Skeweness** & **Kurtosis** \\ \hline Age & 27.88 & 10.33 & 2.03 & 4.05 \\ Age (Log) & 3.27 & 0.30 & 1.07 & 1.08 \\ Education & 14.48 & 2.79 & \(-\)0.19 & 0.13 \\ Annual family income & 3.65 & 1.08 & 0.92 & 0.65 \\ Household size & 3.31 & 1.19 & \(-\)0.19 & \(-\)0.46 \\ \hline
**Discrete Dimensions** & \multicolumn{3}{c}{**Observable**} & **Percentage** \\ \hline Sex & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Male} & 16.6\% \\  & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Female} & 83.4\% \\ \hline  & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Single} & 37.5\% \\  & \multicolumn{3}{c}{In a relationship without cohabiting} & 39.3\% \\ Marital Status & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Married or cohabiting} & 21.4\% \\  & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Divored or separated} & 1.5\% \\  & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Widow} & 0.3\% \\ \hline  & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Unemployed} & 15.1\% \\  & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Student} & 48.4\% \\ Occupation & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Autonomous worker} & 10.0\% \\  & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Public employed} & 5.4\% \\  & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Private employed} & 19.4\% \\  & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Retired} & 1.7\% \\ \hline  & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Alone} & 8.9\% \\ Cohabiting & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Partner} & 14.8\% \\  & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Family} & 68.6\% \\  & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Friend/Roommates} & 7.7\% \\ \hline  & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Yes} & 10.3\% \\ \cline{2-2}  & \multicolumn{3}{c}{No} & 89.7\% \\ \hline Direct contact with COVID19 & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Yes} & 45.7\% \\  & \multicolumn{3}{c}{No} & 54.3\% \\ \hline  & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Infected acquaintances} & 34.8\% \\ Type of contact with COVID19 & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Infected family member} & 7.0\% \\  & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Infected friends} & 9.7\% \\  & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Infected respondent} & 0.8\% \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 1: Socio-demographic characteristics and experiences with COVID19. as reported in Table 2. The correlations are generally very weak or absent, and all of the values are smaller than 0.2 in absolute value. Because of the unbalancing of the discrete socio-demographic and COVID-19 related variables, we adopted the \(\chi^{2}\) statistics discretizing the psychological variables when considering the median values in order to verify the relations of such dimensions with the psychological variables (Table 3). In line with the literature, males are characterized by a greater self efficacy, while, peculiarly, presenting a lower risk propensity. Married and divorced respondents presented a greater self efficacy, while single ones presented a virtual sense of community as well as a lower risk propensity. In particular, risk propensity appears to be greater for widows. Occupational status appears to be related with self efficacy, with unemployed, student, and public worker respondents being characterized by lower values. Concerning risk propensity, students present a lower value, while public workers and retired respondents presented a greater one. The cohabiting condition only showed a relation with a virtual sense of community, with people living with their families reporting lower values.