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Fear and psychopathology during the COVID-19 crisis: neuroticism, hypochondriasis, reassurance-seeking, and coronaphobia as fear factors.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has generated a rise in psychological distress worldwide. Although fear appears to be a major contributing factor, there has been no systematic research to determine which specific facets of fear predict psychopathology during the coronavirus crisis. The present study is the first to examine which fear factors uniquely predict clinical levels of depressive symptoms and generalized anxiety. Data were collected from 256 adults in the United States recruited from Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) during the coronavirus pandemic. The results from logistic regression analyses demonstrated that neuroticism, coronaphobia, and hypochondriasis were fear factors that predicted pandemic-related psychopathology in adults. These findings suggest that mental health professionals should screen individuals for this set of fear factors when choosing appropriate assessments and interventions for treating people who are suffering during the crisis.
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“Research from recent pandemics, including the COVID-19 pandemic, shows that negative emotionality, intolerance of uncertainty, and proneness to health anxiety are correlated with pandemic-related distress (Taylor, 2019; Lee and Crunk, 2020; Rettie and Daniels, 2020; Taylor et al., 2020a).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Lee, S. A., & Crunk, E. A.
- Affiliations
- Christopher Newport University (US)
- Counseling and Human Development, The George Washington University, Washington DC, United States
- Corresponding author
- Lee, Sherman A.
- ORCID
- Lee, Sherman A.
- Venue
- OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2020-08-06
- Volume
- 85
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 483-496
- ISSN
- 0030-2228 (ISSN-L)
- 1541-3764
- OpenAlex
- W3048293963
- Cited by
- 134
- References
- 31
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 46 · 2021: 48 · 2020: 7
- FWCI
- 11.79
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (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
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Keywords
- COVID-19 pandemic, fear, psychopathology, neuroticism, health anxiety, reassurance seeking, fear of COVID-19, depressive symptoms, generalized anxiety disorder, mental health screening, personality traits
- MeSH terms
- Neuroticism, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Adult, Anxiety, Depression, Humans, Hypochondriasis, United States, Pandemics
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