Health anxiety, cyberchondria, and coping in the current COVID-19 pandemic: Which factors are related to coronavirus anxiety?
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- Zeitschriftenaufsatz
- Metadaten:
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- Autoren
- Stefanie M Jungmann
- Michael Witthoeft
- Autoren-URL
- https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=fis-test-1&SrcAuth=WosAPI&KeyUT=WOS:000539362800009&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.janxdis.2020.102239
- eISSN
- 1873-7897
- Externe Identifier
- Clarivate Analytics Document Solution ID: LW7ZO
- PubMed Identifier: 32502806
- ISSN
- 0887-6185
- Zeitschrift
- JOURNAL OF ANXIETY DISORDERS
- Schlüsselwörter
- Cyberchondria
- COVID-19
- Emotion regulation
- Health anxiety
- Virus anxiety
- Artikelnummer
- ARTN 102239
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2020
- Status
- Published
- Titel
- Health anxiety, cyberchondria, and coping in the current COVID-19 pandemic: Which factors are related to coronavirus anxiety?
- Sub types
- Article
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 73
Datenquelle: Web of Science (Lite)
- Andere Metadatenquellen:
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- Autoren
- Stefanie M Jungmann
- Michael Witthöft
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.janxdis.2020.102239
- ISSN
- 0887-6185
- Zeitschrift
- Journal of Anxiety Disorders
- Sprache
- en
- Artikelnummer
- 102239
- Paginierung
- 102239 - 102239
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2020
- Status
- Published
- Herausgeber
- Elsevier BV
- Herausgeber URL
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2020.102239
- Datum der Datenerfassung
- 2020
- Titel
- Health anxiety, cyberchondria, and coping in the current COVID-19 pandemic: Which factors are related to coronavirus anxiety?
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 73
Datenquelle: Crossref
- Abstract
- According to cognitive-behavioral models, traits, triggering events, cognitions, and adverse behaviors play a pivotal role in the development and maintenance of health anxiety. During virus outbreaks, anxiety is widespread. However, the role of trait health anxiety, cyberchondria, and coping in the context of virus anxiety during the current COVID-19 pandemic has not yet been studied. An online survey was conducted in the German general population (N = 1615, 79.8 % female, M<sub>age</sub> = 33.36 years, SD = 13.18) in mid-March 2020, which included questionnaires on anxiety associated with SARS-CoV-2, trait health anxiety, cyberchondria<sub>Pandemic</sub> (i.e. excessive online information search), and emotion regulation. The participants reported a significantly increasing virus anxiety in recent months (previous months recorded retrospectively), especially among individuals with heightened trait health anxiety. Cyberchondria<sub>Pandemic</sub> showed positive correlations with current virus anxiety (r = .09-.48), and this relationship was additionally moderated by trait health anxiety. A negative correlation was found between the perception of being informed about the pandemic and the current virus anxiety (r=-.18), with adaptive emotion regulation being a significant moderator for this relationship. The findings suggest that trait health anxiety and cyberchondria serve as risk factors, whereas information about the pandemic and adaptive emotion regulation might represent buffering factors for anxiety during a virus pandemic.
- Addresses
- Department of Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Experimental Psychopathology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany. Electronic address: jungmann@uni-mainz.de.
- Autoren
- Stefanie M Jungmann
- Michael Witthöft
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.janxdis.2020.102239
- eISSN
- 1873-7897
- Externe Identifier
- PubMed Identifier: 32502806
- PubMed Central ID: PMC7239023
- Open access
- true
- ISSN
- 0887-6185
- Zeitschrift
- Journal of anxiety disorders
- Schlüsselwörter
- Humans
- Pneumonia, Viral
- Coronavirus Infections
- Health Surveys
- Risk Factors
- Retrospective Studies
- Anxiety
- Hypochondriasis
- Internet
- Adult
- Germany
- Female
- Male
- Pandemics
- Emotional Adjustment
- Betacoronavirus
- Emotional Regulation
- COVID-19
- SARS-CoV-2
- Sprache
- eng
- Medium
- Print-Electronic
- Online publication date
- 2020
- Open access status
- Open Access
- Paginierung
- 102239
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2020
- Status
- Published
- Datum der Datenerfassung
- 2020
- Titel
- Health anxiety, cyberchondria, and coping in the current COVID-19 pandemic: Which factors are related to coronavirus anxiety?
- Sub types
- research-article
- Journal Article
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 73
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- Abstract
- According to cognitive-behavioral models, traits, triggering events, cognitions, and adverse behaviors play a pivotal role in the development and maintenance of health anxiety. During virus outbreaks, anxiety is widespread. However, the role of trait health anxiety, cyberchondria, and coping in the context of virus anxiety during the current COVID-19 pandemic has not yet been studied. An online survey was conducted in the German general population (N = 1615, 79.8 % female, Mage = 33.36 years, SD = 13.18) in mid-March 2020, which included questionnaires on anxiety associated with SARS-CoV-2, trait health anxiety, cyberchondriaPandemic (i.e. excessive online information search), and emotion regulation. The participants reported a significantly increasing virus anxiety in recent months (previous months recorded retrospectively), especially among individuals with heightened trait health anxiety. CyberchondriaPandemic showed positive correlations with current virus anxiety (r = .09-.48), and this relationship was additionally moderated by trait health anxiety. A negative correlation was found between the perception of being informed about the pandemic and the current virus anxiety (r=-.18), with adaptive emotion regulation being a significant moderator for this relationship. The findings suggest that trait health anxiety and cyberchondria serve as risk factors, whereas information about the pandemic and adaptive emotion regulation might represent buffering factors for anxiety during a virus pandemic.
- Date of acceptance
- 2020
- Autoren
- Stefanie M Jungmann
- Michael Witthöft
- Autoren-URL
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32502806
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.janxdis.2020.102239
- eISSN
- 1873-7897
- Externe Identifier
- PubMed Central ID: PMC7239023
- Zeitschrift
- J Anxiety Disord
- Schlüsselwörter
- COVID-19
- Cyberchondria
- Emotion regulation
- Health anxiety
- Virus anxiety
- Adult
- Anxiety
- Betacoronavirus
- COVID-19
- Coronavirus Infections
- Emotional Adjustment
- Emotional Regulation
- Female
- Germany
- Health Surveys
- Humans
- Hypochondriasis
- Internet
- Male
- Pandemics
- Pneumonia, Viral
- Retrospective Studies
- Risk Factors
- SARS-CoV-2
- Sprache
- eng
- Country
- Netherlands
- Paginierung
- 102239
- PII
- S0887-6185(20)30053-0
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2020
- Status
- Published
- Datum, an dem der Datensatz öffentlich gemacht wurde
- 2020
- Titel
- Health anxiety, cyberchondria, and coping in the current COVID-19 pandemic: Which factors are related to coronavirus anxiety?
- Sub types
- Journal Article
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 73
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