Fear of COVID-19 and Positivity: Mediating Role of Intolerance of Uncertainty, Depression, Anxiety, and Stress

Bakioğlu, Fuad; Korkmaz, Ozan; Ercan, Hülya

doi:10.1007/s11469-020-00331-y

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“…In accordance with the main hypothesis, fear of COVID-19 and perceived stress mediated in the relationship between self-blame regret and depression. In line with this hypothesis, previous studies reported that fear of COVID-19 in ates perceived stress (Bakioğlu, Korkmaz & Ercan, 2020); perceived stress (e.g., Zhang, Peters & Chen, 2018) and particularly pandemic related stress contributes to elevated levels of depressive symptoms (Montano & Acebes, 2020). Taking together, within the framework of all discussed ndings, it can be concluded that self-blame regret impacts in depression through fear of COVID-19 and psychological stress.…”

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Self-blame regret, fear of COVID-19 and mental health during post-peak pandemic

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2020

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The novel Coronavirus pandemic caused strong negative emotions including fear, and stress and impacted in mental health of individuals worldwide. One of the emotions linked with mental health and infectious disease is self-blame regret. Thus, current study investigated the role of fear of COVID-19 and perceived stress in the relationship between self-blame regret and depression. A community sample of 352 individuals in Turkey (71 % female and 29 % males), ranged between in age18 and 63 (M= 28.90±8.90), completed fear of COVID-19 (FCV-19S), perceived stress (PSS-10), DASS-21 scales and responded to one item concerning the self-blame regret. Results demonstrated that self-blame regret is positively correlated with fear of COVID-19, perceived stress and depressive symptoms. Moreover, serial multiple mediation analyses demonstrated that both fear of COVID-19 and perceived stress mediated in the relationship between self-blame regret and depression. Findings and implications are discussed.

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confidence: 64%

Self-blame regret, fear of COVID-19 and mental health during post-peak pandemic

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2020

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“…In relation to anxious-depressive symptoms, being older was significantly negatively related with depression and anxiety, as in the study by Gonzalez-Sanguino et al (2020), with women exhibiting higher scores in anxiousdepressive symptoms both in their study and ours. Regarding fear of COVID-19, previous studies have highlighted the difference between sexes, with fear being significantly higher in women (Bakioglu, Korkmaz & Ercan, 2020). Additionally, in the study by Castillejos et al (2020), an association was found between lower age and higher suicidal ideation scores.…”

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Socio-emotional Strengths Against Psychopathology and Suicidal Ideation in Fear of Covid-19

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Falcó

Rodríguez

2020

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Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has caused a global health crisis. It also leads to different types of psychosocial problems in society as a result of preventive health measures and the disease itself. Among others, psychopathological symptoms and suicide behaviors have increased. The PsicorecurSOS COVID-19 online protocol was designed. At baseline, 1,020 Spanish adults were assessed, during confinement, for sociodemographics, fear of COVID-19, anxious-depressive symptoms, covitality, and suicidal ideation. Reliability, descriptive, and frequency analyses were carried out, and the computer tool SPSS PROCESS was used to carry out a conditional process analysis (model 59). A total of 595 participants were included (58.30% response rate from baseline; mean age = 37.18 [SD = 13.30]; 72.44% female). Regarding suicidal ideation, 12% responded differently to “never,” 19.3% exceeded the cutoff point on the anxiety scale, and 24% on the depression scale. Moderate mediation analysis explained 27% of the variance in suicidal ideation. In addition, the indirect effect of moderate mediation was significant (b = -.003, SE = .002 with the presence of covitality; and b = .01, SE = .003 absence of covitality). Sex and age did not influence the overall outcome of the model. The data from this study can serve as a starting point for generating social and health treatment initiatives based on self-examination of anxiety-depressive symptoms and increasing socio-emotional skills in order to prevent and alleviate the psychosocial effects of the pandemic.

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“… 43 Contrarily, correlations between anxiety and place of residence, level of education or having relatives infected with SARS-CoV-2 were not observed in some studies. 44 In our study, media habits were indirectly studied in the FCV-19S, however, it is difficult to measure the media habits in an objective manner. 43 Not assessing the above-mentioned factors has to be considered as a limitation of our study.…”

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Impact of COVID-19 on anxiety levels among patients with cancer actively treated with systemic therapy

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BackgroundLife-threatening diseases have a negative impact on emotional well-being and psychosocial functioning. This study aimed to assess the relationship between the level of anxiety caused by a neoplasm and the threat of coronavirus infection among patients with cancer actively treated with systemic therapy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, we searched for clinical factors associated with a higher level of anxiety.MethodsIn this multicentre, prospective, non-interventional study conducted in Poland, we enrolled 306 actively treated patients with cancer and collected their clinical data, including age, gender, cancer type and treatment intention. The fear/anxiety of SARS-CoV-2 were rated in Fear of COVID-19 Scale (SRA-FCV-19S) and Numerical Anxiety Scale (SRA-NAS). The fear and anxiety associated with cancer (CRA) were rated with the NAS (CRA-NAS).ResultsThe mean level of SRA-FCV-19S was 18.5±7.44, which was correlated with the SRA-NAS (r=0.741, p<0.001). SRA-FCV-19S was significantly higher in women versus men (20.18±7.56 vs 16.54±6.83; p<0.001) and was tumour type-dependent (p=0.037), with the highest anxiety observed in patients with breast cancer (17.63±8.75). In the multivariate analysis, only the female gender was significantly associated with higher SRA. CRA-NAS was higher in women versus men (7.07±2.99 vs 5.47±3.01; p<0.001), in patients treated with curative versus palliative intention (7.14±3.06 vs 5.99±3.06; p=0.01) and in individuals aged ≤65 years versus >65 years (6.73±2.96 vs 5.66±3.24; p=0.007).ConclusionsFor an actively treated patient with cancer, cancer remains the main life-threatening disease during the COVID-19 pandemic. The need for more attentive psychological care should be provided especially to female patients, patients with breast cancer, those under 65 years of age and treated with curative intention, as these factors are associated with a higher level of anxiety.

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Fear of COVID-19 and Positivity: Mediating Role of Intolerance of Uncertainty, Depression, Anxiety, and Stress

Cited by 677 publications

References 35 publications

Self-blame regret, fear of COVID-19 and mental health during post-peak pandemic

Self-blame regret, fear of COVID-19 and mental health during post-peak pandemic

Socio-emotional Strengths Against Psychopathology and Suicidal Ideation in Fear of Covid-19

Impact of COVID-19 on anxiety levels among patients with cancer actively treated with systemic therapy

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