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Incremental validity of coronaphobia: Coronavirus anxiety explains depression, generalized anxiety, and death anxiety
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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.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Lee, S. A., Jobe, M. C., Mathis, A. A., & Gibbons, J. A.
- Affiliations
- Christopher Newport University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Lee, Sherman A.
- Venue
- Journal of Anxiety Disorders
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-08
- Volume
- 74
- Pages
- 102268
- ISSN
- 0887-6185 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7328548
- OpenAlex
- W3039080593
- Cited by
- 392
- References
- 23
- Citations by year
- 2026: 13 · 2025: 30 · 2024: 35 · 2023: 92 · 2022: 82 · 2021: 107 · 2020: 32
- FWCI
- 31.23
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Journal of Anxiety Disorders (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Communication › Communication and COVID-19 Impact
- Keywords
- fear of COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, incremental validity, depression, generalized anxiety disorder, fear of death, psychological distress, pandemic stress, health anxiety, reassurance seeking, neuroticism, healthcare workers
- MeSH terms
- Betacoronavirus, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Adult, Anxiety, Depression, Disease Outbreaks, Fear, Humans, Pneumonia, Viral, Stress, Psychological, Coronavirus, Coronavirus Infections, Pandemics
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