Incremental validity of coronaphobia: Coronavirus anxiety explains depression, generalized anxiety, and death anxiety

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COVID‐19 anxiety among front‐line nurses: Predictive role of organisational support, personal resilience and social support

“…Nurses participating in the study indicated the frequency of symptoms experienced in a 5-point Likert-type scale (0 [not at all] to 4 [nearly every day]). The scale had an outstanding predictive validity, as evidenced by a positive association with disability and psychological distress (Lee et al, 2020), and excellent reliability, with an internal consistency of 0.93 in a previous study (Lee et al, 2020) and a Cronbach's alpha of 0.87 in the present study.…”

“…Possible scores for this scale ranged from 5 to 25. The scale discriminates between those with dysfunctional anxiety andnon-anxiety using an optimized cut-off score of 9(Lee et al, 2020).…”

Modelling the contribution of the Big Five personality traits, health anxiety, and COVID-19 psychological distress to generalised anxiety and depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic

“… Noyes and colleagues (2005) also reported a strong correlation between health anxiety and negative temperament (which is similar to the Big Five's personality trait of neuroticism). In the afore mentioned study by Lee and colleagues (2020a) , undertaken in the early phases of the pandemic, neuroticism was also found to be correlated with health anxiety. This study also indicated a positive correlation between neuroticism and COVID-19 anxiety.…”

“…In a very recent study undertaken at the height of the pandemic (April 2020) Lee and colleagues (2020a) showed that neuroticism predicted both generalised anxiety and depressive symptoms controlling for a wide array of sociodemographic variables (e.g. age, gender, etc.…”

Emotional and Behavioral Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Health Anxiety, Intolerance of Uncertainty, and Distress (In)Tolerance

“…Previous studies have highlighted health anxiety as a potential risk factor for heightened virus anxiety [ 13 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 ], but partly lacked a differentiation between health anxiety pre and during COVID-19. In the present study, we confirmed the role of health anxiety in SARS-CoV-2 related anxiety and additionally showed that both pre-existing (pre) (retrospectively assessed) and emerging (during) health anxiety intensified the linear increase of SARS-CoV-2 related anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic.…”