Background. Cyberchondria is a term used to refer to excessive surfing the web looking for health care information, excessive checking behavior being related to health-related anxiety. This period of quarantine for the Covid-19 pandemic is increasing the pathological use of the internet, and the excessive surfing the web looking for health care information. Another dimension related to the Covid-19 outbreak refers to uncertainty intolerance, for this reason being necessary for the healthcare professionals to provide clear and linear information. Aim. The aim of this review is to identify the psychological correlations connected to cyberchondria in the quarantine period. Methods. Following the PRISMA guidelines, we carried out a systematic review of the literature on PubMed. The terms used for the search were “Cyberchondria” OR “Anxiety” AND “Quarantine”. Results. As resulting from the reviewed literature, there is a relationship between anxiety for one’s own state of health and cyberchondria, with negative psychological effects of quarantine, including post-traumatic stress symptoms, depression, anxiety, low mood, irritability, insomnia, uncertainty, emotional exhaustion, this condition being associated with hypervigilance, and catastrophic misinterpretation of bodily signs. Conclusion. In the light of this and according to the literature, it would be desirable that research can further explore the factors influencing the increase in cyberchondria in the future.
Este trabajo tiene como objetivo general investigar la tipología Junguiana, (Jung, 1921); a partir de los resultados del Inventario Tipológico Forma G (MBTI, 1995) de Briggs-Myers, en una muestra de pacientes con Trastorno Depresivo, analizando a su vez, las relaciones con la Personalidad Depresiva y con los diferentes Patrones Clínicos de la Personalidad en una muestra de 82 pacientes con diagnóstico clínico de Trastorno Depresivo. Se estudia en primer lugar la relación entre el patrón tipológico y la depresión. En segundo lugar, la relación entre tipología y los diferentes patrones clínicos de personalidad, y en tercer lugar, comparamos la tipología en pacientes con y sin personalidad depresiva. Los resultados obtenidos muestran una clara preferencia por la Introversión sobre la Extroversión y de la Sensación sobre la Intuición en los Trastornos Depresivos (BDI-I, 1979) y en casi todos los Patrones Clínicos de la Personalidad (MCMI-III, 2007). A medida que aumenta la sintomatología depresiva se observa un mayor predominio de la introversión.
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