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Worry, avoidance, and coping during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comprehensive network analysis
BACKGROUND: Many psychological factors play a role in the COVID-19 pandemic, including various forms of worry, avoidance, and coping. Adding to the complexity, some people believe the threat of COVID-19 is exaggerated. We used network analysis to investigate how these diverse elements are interrelat...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7585364/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33137601 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2020.102327 |
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author | Taylor, Steven Landry, Caeleigh A. Paluszek, Michelle M. Rachor, Geoffrey S. Asmundson, Gordon J.G. |
author_facet | Taylor, Steven Landry, Caeleigh A. Paluszek, Michelle M. Rachor, Geoffrey S. Asmundson, Gordon J.G. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Many psychological factors play a role in the COVID-19 pandemic, including various forms of worry, avoidance, and coping. Adding to the complexity, some people believe the threat of COVID-19 is exaggerated. We used network analysis to investigate how these diverse elements are interrelated. METHODS: A population-representative sample of 3075 American and Canadian adults completed an online survey, including measures of COVID-19-related worry, avoidance, self-protective behaviors, and other variables. RESULTS: The network contained three major hubs, replicated across gender and age groups. The most important hub centered around worries about the dangerousness of COVID-19, and formed the core of the previously identified COVID Stress Syndrome. The second most important hub, which was negatively correlated with the first hub, centered around the belief that the COVID-19 threat is exaggerated, and was associated with disregard for social distancing, poor hand hygiene, and anti-vaccination attitudes. The third most important hub, which was linked to the first hub, centered around COVID-19-related compulsive checking and reassurance-seeking, including self-protective behaviors such as panic buying and use of personal protective equipment. CONCLUSION: Network analysis showed how various forms of worry, avoidance, coping, and other variables are interrelated. Implications for managing disease and distress are discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-75853642020-10-26 Worry, avoidance, and coping during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comprehensive network analysis Taylor, Steven Landry, Caeleigh A. Paluszek, Michelle M. Rachor, Geoffrey S. Asmundson, Gordon J.G. J Anxiety Disord Article BACKGROUND: Many psychological factors play a role in the COVID-19 pandemic, including various forms of worry, avoidance, and coping. Adding to the complexity, some people believe the threat of COVID-19 is exaggerated. We used network analysis to investigate how these diverse elements are interrelated. METHODS: A population-representative sample of 3075 American and Canadian adults completed an online survey, including measures of COVID-19-related worry, avoidance, self-protective behaviors, and other variables. RESULTS: The network contained three major hubs, replicated across gender and age groups. The most important hub centered around worries about the dangerousness of COVID-19, and formed the core of the previously identified COVID Stress Syndrome. The second most important hub, which was negatively correlated with the first hub, centered around the belief that the COVID-19 threat is exaggerated, and was associated with disregard for social distancing, poor hand hygiene, and anti-vaccination attitudes. The third most important hub, which was linked to the first hub, centered around COVID-19-related compulsive checking and reassurance-seeking, including self-protective behaviors such as panic buying and use of personal protective equipment. CONCLUSION: Network analysis showed how various forms of worry, avoidance, coping, and other variables are interrelated. Implications for managing disease and distress are discussed. Elsevier Ltd. 2020-12 2020-10-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7585364/ /pubmed/33137601 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2020.102327 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Taylor, Steven Landry, Caeleigh A. Paluszek, Michelle M. Rachor, Geoffrey S. Asmundson, Gordon J.G. Worry, avoidance, and coping during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comprehensive network analysis |
title | Worry, avoidance, and coping during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comprehensive network analysis |
title_full | Worry, avoidance, and coping during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comprehensive network analysis |
title_fullStr | Worry, avoidance, and coping during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comprehensive network analysis |
title_full_unstemmed | Worry, avoidance, and coping during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comprehensive network analysis |
title_short | Worry, avoidance, and coping during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comprehensive network analysis |
title_sort | worry, avoidance, and coping during the covid-19 pandemic: a comprehensive network analysis |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7585364/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33137601 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2020.102327 |
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