Christopher Newport University, United States.
Christopher Newport University, United States.
J Anxiety Disord. 2020 Aug;74:102268. doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2020.102268. Epub 2020 Jul 1.
The adverse psychological effects of COVID-19 have increased globally. Moreover, the psychological toll may be worsening for this health crisis due to the growing numbers of mass deaths and unemployment levels. Coronaphobia, a relatively new pandemic-related construct, has been shown to be strongly related to functional impairment and psychological distress. However, the extent to which coronaphobia is uniquely accountable for the psychological distress experienced during the COVID-19 crisis has not been systematically investigated. The current study examined this question of incremental validity using online data from 453 adult MTurk workers in the U.S. The results of a series of hierarchical multiple regression analyses demonstrated that coronaphobia explained additional variance in depression, generalized anxiety, and death anxiety, above sociodemographics, COVID-19 factors, and the vulnerability factors of neuroticism, health anxiety, and reassurance-seeking behaviors. These findings suggest that health professionals should be aware of coronaphobia as this expression of pandemic-related stress has reliably demonstrated incremental validity in accounting for major indicators of psychological distress.
COVID-19 对全球的心理健康造成了负面影响。此外，由于死亡人数和失业率不断增加，这场健康危机可能导致心理压力加剧。冠状恐惧症是一种与大流行相关的相对较新的概念，已被证明与功能障碍和心理困扰密切相关。然而，冠状恐惧症在多大程度上可以完全解释 COVID-19 危机期间经历的心理困扰，尚未得到系统研究。本研究使用来自美国 453 名 MTurk 成年工人的在线数据，检验了这一增量有效性问题。一系列分层多元回归分析的结果表明，冠状恐惧症在抑郁、广泛性焦虑和死亡焦虑方面解释了更多的差异，这些差异超过了人口统计学、COVID-19 因素以及神经质、健康焦虑和寻求安慰行为等脆弱性因素。这些发现表明，医疗保健专业人员应该意识到冠状恐惧症，因为这种与大流行相关的压力表现已可靠地证明在解释主要心理困扰指标方面具有增量有效性。
