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01-12-2021 | COVID-19 | Letter to the Editor

Assessing Psychological Response to the COVID-19: The Fear of COVID-19 Scale and the COVID Stress Scales

Authors: Amir H. Pakpour, Mark D. Griffiths, Chung-Ying Lin

Published in: International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction | Issue 6/2021

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The threat of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been well acknowledged and its impacts on individuals’ psychological responses have been empirically reported (e.g., Bhuiyan et al. 2020; Qiu et al. 2020; Wang et al. 2020). Such psychological responses, especially anxiety and fear, are important factors for an individual’s behaviors. Taylor (2019) indicated that low levels of anxiety may lead to reluctant prevention behaviors (e.g., handwashing) and high level of anxiety may lead to socially disruptive behaviors (e.g., panic buying) (Taylor et al. 2020; Lin 2020). Therefore, there is a need for healthcare providers to have a valid instrument to assess an individual’s psychological responses specifically toward COVID-19 during the pandemic (Taylor et al. 2020). …

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Title: Assessing Psychological Response to the COVID-19: The Fear of COVID-19 Scale and the COVID Stress Scales
Authors: Amir H. Pakpour
Mark D. Griffiths
Chung-Ying Lin
Publication date: 01-12-2021
Publisher: Springer US
Keywords: COVID-19
Anxiety
Published in: International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction / Issue 6/2021
Print ISSN: 1557-1874
Electronic ISSN: 1557-1882
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-020-00334-9

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