The relationship between quality of life and fear of Turkish individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study

Covid-19 Korkusunu Etkileyen Faktörler

“…Another important conclusion of the study is that gender is the only demographic factor that affects the fear of COVID-19, with the level of fear in females being 2.61 times higher than in males. Similarly, studies on the level of fear of different diseases have also found that females have a higher fear of a disease (Aksoy et al, 2021;Doshi et al, 2020;Kassim et al, 2021;Kessler et al, 2012;Yang et al, 2019) which is consistent with the results of our study.…”

Gender and COVID-19 related fear and anxiety: A meta-analysis

“… Turkey Europe General population 31.04 Collectivism Bakioğlu et al, 2020 960 3.5 Turkey Europe General population 29.74 Collectivism Abdelgwad and Abdelaziz, 2021 382 N.A. Egypt Middle East University students 21.93 Collectivism Aksoy et al, 2021 1060 7.5 Turkey Europe General population 29.76 Collectivism Alnazly et al, 2021 365 8 Jordan Middle East Hospital staff N.A. Collectivism Alothman et al, 2021 554 5.5 Saudi Arabia Middle East General population 34.5 Collectivism Antonio and Elizabeth, 2021 438 N.A.…”

Measuring anxiety and fear of Covid-19 among older people: psychometric properties of anxiety and fear of Covid-19 scale (AMICO) in Spain

“…In relation to the marital status, data from this study show higher levels of anxiety and fear of COVID-19 in single and widowed subjects than in married subjects, contrary to what was found in the general population, where the latter showed the highest values on the AMICO scale [ 34 , 35 ]. Data reported on the use of the FCV-19 scale in some studies also seem to find higher levels of fear of COVID-19 in unmarried subjects [ 58 , 60 , 65 ], although other studies find reverse results [ 29 , 62 ]. Nevertheless, the results of some works point to the fact that having a partner may be a protective factor against the psychological and psychiatric effects of the pandemic [ 66 ] and others that it is the fact of living alone that would confer the greatest propensity to higher levels of fear, especially in the elderly [ 23 , 60 ].…”

“…However, this author suggests that the key element could be the "health education" factor which, probably favoured by higher levels of education, would have the effect of reducing levels of fear. In the general population with lower mean age, on the other hand, a clearer and more generalised inverse relationship seems to be found between educational level and fear of COVID-19, so that lower levels of educational attainment would be associated with higher values on the FCV-19 scale [ 62 ].…”