Incremental validity of coronaphobia: Coronavirus anxiety explains depression, generalized anxiety, and death anxiety
Incremental validity of coronaphobia: Coronavirus anxiety explains depression, generalized anxiety, and death anxiety
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DOI：
10.1016/j.janxdis.2020.102268
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发表时间：
2020-08-01
影响因子：
10.3
通讯作者：
Gibbons, Jeffrey A.
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作者：
Lee, Sherman A.;Jobe, Mary C.;Gibbons, Jeffrey A.
COVID-19的不利心理影响在全球范围内有所增加。此外，由于大规模死亡人数和失业率不断上升，这场健康危机造成的心理损失可能正在恶化。冠状病毒恐惧症是一个相对较新的流行病相关结构，已被证明与功能障碍和心理困扰密切相关。然而，冠状病毒恐惧症在多大程度上是COVID-19危机期间所经历的心理困扰的唯一原因，尚未得到系统的研究。目前的研究使用来自美国453名成年MTurk工作者的在线数据检查了这个增量有效性问题。一系列分层多元回归分析的结果表明，冠状恐惧症解释了抑郁症、广泛性焦虑和死亡焦虑的额外差异，高于社会人口统计学、COVID-19因素以及神经质、健康焦虑和寻求安慰行为的脆弱性因素。这些研究结果表明，卫生专业人员应该意识到冠状病毒恐惧症，因为这种与流行病相关的压力的表达已经可靠地证明了心理困扰的主要指标的有效性。
The adverse psychological effects of COVID-19 have increased globally. Moreover, the psychological toll may be worsening for this health crisis due to the growing numbers of mass deaths and unemployment levels. Coronaphobia, a relatively new pandemic-related construct, has been shown to be strongly related to functional impairment and psychological distress. However, the extent to which coronaphobia is uniquely accountable for the psychological distress experienced during the COVID-19 crisis has not been systematically investigated. The current study examined this question of incremental validity using online data from 453 adult MTurk workers in the U.S. The results of a series of hierarchical multiple regression analyses demonstrated that coronaphobia explained additional variance in depression, generalized anxiety, and death anxiety, above sociodemographics, COVID-19 factors, and the vulnerability factors of neuroticism, health anxiety, and reassurance-seeking behaviors. These findings suggest that health professionals should be aware of coronaphobia as this expression of pandemic-related stress has reliably demonstrated incremental validity in accounting for major indicators of psychological distress.