The relationship between fear of COVID-19 and health anxiety among families with COVID-19 infected: The mediating role of metacognitions, intolerance of uncertainty and emotion regulation

Autor:	Elahe Zamani, Ana V. Nikčević, Marcantonio M. Spada, Mehdi Akbari
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Adult 050103 clinical psychology Mediation (statistics) Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) media_common.quotation_subject Metacognition Anxiety Structural equation modeling 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Expressive Suppression media_common SARS-CoV-2 05 social sciences Uncertainty COVID-19 Cognition Fear Middle Aged psychiatry 030227 psychiatry Emotional Regulation Clinical Psychology medicine.symptom Worry Psychology Clinical psychology
Zdroj:	Clinical psychologypsychotherapyREFERENCES. 28(6)
ISSN:	1099-0879 1063-3995
Popis:	The current study aimed to investigate the mediating role of metacognitions, intolerance of uncertainty and emotion regulation in the relationship between fear of COVID-19 (FC-19) and health anxiety, among families with COVID-19 infected. Participants were 541 individuals from family members of patients with COVID-19 (F = 52.3%, mean age = 41.3 ± 13.2 years). Data were collected with a packet including sociodemographic and risk factors, the Fear of COVID-19 Scale, the Short Health Anxiety Inventory, the Metacognitions Questionnaire 30, the Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale-12 and the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire. Structural equation modelling analyses revealed a full mediation of metacognitions (i.e., positive beliefs about worry, negative beliefs about thoughts concerning uncontrollability and danger, cognitive confidence and beliefs about the need to control thoughts), intolerance of uncertainty and expressive suppression in the relation between FC-19 and health anxiety. Moreover, the strongest indirect links were found between FC-19 and health anxiety through negative beliefs about thoughts concerning uncontrollability and danger and intolerance of uncertainty. These associations were independent of gender and risk status. The final model accounted for 71% of the variance of health anxiety. These findings suggest that particularly metacognitions, intolerance of uncertainty and expressive suppression play a full mediational role in the relation between FC-19 and health anxiety. [Abstract copyright: © 2021 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.]
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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