As illustrated in Table 3, younger people perceived higher levels of stress compared with older people (β = −0.076, SE = 0.016, p < .001); the number of children an individual was staying with was positively related to perceived stress levels (β = 0.021, SE = 0.003, p < .001); women were more stressed than men (β = 0.065, SE = 0.012, p < .001); married or cohabiting people were less stressed than singles (β = −0.132, SE = 0.048, p < .01); education was negatively related to stress levels (β = −0.022, SE = 0.003, p < .001), meaning that the higher the completed education, the less stressed a participant was, and participants from countries and areas with higher COVID‐19 severity were more stressed (β = 0.090, SE = 0.044, p < .05).