Over the past few months, a number of studies reported on the prevalence of depressive symptoms among the general population during the COVID-19 pandemic and identified several potential predictive factors, including age, gender, marital status, education level, occupation, loneliness, having an acquaintance infected with COVID-19, as well as past history of medical disorders [15,16,17]. Conversely, relatively few studies have investigated psychological determinants of depressive symptoms severity during the COVID-19 outbreak [18,19,20,21].