Mushkbar Fatima S, Khan Saira, Sadia Rayna
National Institute of Psychology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Riphah International University, Gulberg Greens Campus, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Psychol Russ. 2023 Jun 30;16(2):63-71. doi: 10.11621/pir.2023.0205. eCollection 2023.
COVID-19 has adversely affected economies and individuals globally. To this day, countries are facing the economic effects of the pandemic directly, and individuals' mental health is in danger as they are still indirectly dealing with the pandemic. It is imperative to understand how pandemic-related anxiety affected individuals' mental health so that all stakeholders can take essential remedial steps.
The current research aimed to investigate the relationship between Perceived Infectability, Coronavirus Anxiety, and Psychological Well-being. It also sought to explore the role of coronavirus anxiety in mediating between perceived infectability and psychological well-being.
A cross-sectional correlational study design and non-probability convenience sampling technique were used to collect the data. The data were collected from 321 Pakistani adults, who filled out Google forms on the Perceived Infectability subscale of the Perceived Vulnerability to Disease Scale; the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale; and the Psychological Well-being Scale.
Correlation analysis indicated that both perceived infectability and coronavirus anxiety were negatively related to psychological well-being. However, a significant positive relationship was observed between perceived infectability and coronavirus anxiety. Our findings further proved the mediating role of coronavirus anxiety between perceived infectability and the psychological well-being of adults.
Understanding perceived infectability and its association with COVID-19 anxiety and psychological well-being is pertinent in this post-pandemic period in both developing and developed nations. The post-pandemic world is still being jolted with the aftereffects of the pandemic. An in-depth understanding of how individuals Coped with the pandemic, might help in designing better intervention and community health programs after the pandemic, and it could also help in preparing for the crises attending future pandemics (if any).
新冠疫情对全球经济和个人都产生了不利影响。时至今日，各国仍在直接面对疫情的经济影响，而个人的心理健康也因仍在间接应对疫情而面临风险。了解与疫情相关的焦虑如何影响个人心理健康至关重要，这样所有利益相关者才能采取必要的补救措施。
当前研究旨在调查感知易感性、新冠焦虑与心理健康之间的关系。研究还试图探讨新冠焦虑在感知易感性与心理健康之间的中介作用。
采用横断面相关研究设计和非概率便利抽样技术收集数据。数据收集自321名巴基斯坦成年人，他们填写了关于疾病易感性感知量表的感知易感性子量表、新冠焦虑量表和心理健康量表的谷歌表格。
相关分析表明，感知易感性和新冠焦虑均与心理健康呈负相关。然而，感知易感性与新冠焦虑之间存在显著的正相关关系。我们的研究结果进一步证明了新冠焦虑在成年人的感知易感性与心理健康之间的中介作用。
在疫情后的这个时期，无论是发展中国家还是发达国家，了解感知易感性及其与新冠焦虑和心理健康的关联都至关重要。疫情后的世界仍受到疫情后遗症的冲击。深入了解个人如何应对疫情，可能有助于在疫情后设计更好的干预措施和社区健康项目，也有助于为未来可能出现的疫情危机做好准备。
