Associations between social support and anxiety during the COVID-19 lockdown in young and middle-aged Israelis: A cross-sectional study

Table 3 Odds ratios (95% confidence intervals) of anxiety (Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 score ≥ 9) across Multidimensional Perceived Social Support Scale score

Variable	Univariate logistic regression		Multivariate logistic regression
	OR (95%CI)	P value	OR (95%CI)	P value
MSPSS	0.747 (0.605, 0.921)	0.006	0.709 (0.563, 0.894)	0.004
Age	0.965 (0.944, 0.986)	0.001	0.976 (0.953, 0.999)	0.041
Sex	2.187 (1.222, 3.913)	0.008	2.151 (1.142, 4.053)	0.018
Number of children	0.658 (0.514, 0.842)	0.001	-	-
Education	0.617 (0.464, 0.822)	0.001	0.615 (0.445, 0.851)	0.003
Occupation	1.096 (0.980, 1.227)	0.109	-	-
Socio-economic status	0.539 (0.409, 0.710)	< 0.001	0.628 (0.465, 0.849)	0.003
Exercise	0.659 (0.393, 1.106)	0.114	-	-
Use of antidepressants	2.613 (1.461, 4.672)	0.001	2.588 (1.384, 4.841)	0.004

MSPSS: Multidimensional Perceived Social Support Scale; CI: Confidence interval; OR: Odds ratio.