*3.1. Between Groups Comparison (ANOVAs)*

As reported in Table 3, psychiatric patients demonstrated lower scores on DASS-21 Anxiety, BRCS, Risk Perception, and Worry. In more detail, ANOVAs showed a significant difference between groups on DASS-21 Anxiety and Stress, Risk Perception, and Worry. In particular, psychiatric patients scored lower on Stress and higher on Anxiety, Perceived Risk of getting infected with COVID-19 and Worry about the emergency situation, compared to healthy controls.

**Table 3.** Between groups comparison (ANOVAs).


Note. BRCS: Brief Resilient Coping Scale. Emboldened results were found to be significant, with *p* < 0.05.

No significant differences were found between groups on DASS-21 Depression and the BRCS.
