This paper utilizes data from two-waves of the UCL-Penn Global COVID Study to understand:
1) Are schizotypal traits and paranoia associated with poorer mental health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic? and;
2) Do network structures of the above variables differ by gender, age, country, and over time?
Unlike previous published COVID studies, this paper includes a wider range of psychological variables (beyond loneliness, anxiety, and depression) to look at stress due to COVID, poor sleep, empathy and paranoia/schizotypal traits. Another unique feature of this paper is the possibility of examining stability and change in the structure and inter-variables relationships over a 6 month period between wave 1 (17 April to 31 July 2020) and wave 2 (17 October 2020 to 31 Jan 2021) of the study.