The fear of COVID-19 and its role in preventive behaviors

By Amir H. Pakpour, Mark D. Griffiths. 2020

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Citations in the corpus

• Online Gaming During the COVID-19 Pandemic in India: Strategies for Work-Life Balance (2020, background): “This is causing immense psychological distress and fear among some individuals all over the world (Ahorsu et al. 2020; Liu et al. 2020; Pakpour and Griffiths 2020; Xiang et al. 2020).”
• Fear of COVID-19 and Positivity: Mediating Role of Intolerance of Uncertainty, Depression, Anxiety, and Stress (2020, background): “Individual, national, and international level effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are expected (Pakpour and Griffiths 2020).”
• Adaptation of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale: Its Association with Psychological Distress and Life Satisfaction in Turkey (2020, background): “On the other hand, there are a limited number of studies regarding the psychological impacts of COVID-19 on mental health (Mamun and Griffiths 2020; Pakpour and Griffiths 2020; Schimmenti et al. 2020; Wang et al. 2020).”
• Psychological impact of covid-19 crises on students through the lens of Stimulus-Organism-Response (SOR) model (2020, background): “In a similar setting, the Covid-19 pandemic has also created an environment of psychological fear (Ahorsu et al., 2020; Ornell et al., 2020; Pakpour & Griffiths, 2020) across all sections of society.”
• Psychometric Validation of the Bangla Fear of COVID-19 Scale: Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Rasch Analysis (2020, background): “Knowing such information can help in providing information to targeted specific populations so that they can perform preventive COVID-19 behaviors to help reduce fear levels (Pakpour and Griffiths 2020).”
• Psychometric Properties of the Greek Version of FCV-19S (2020, background): “They also highlight that it is possible to predict more or less the expected consequences on mental and physical health of the most vulnerable segments of the population (Ahorsu et al. 2020; Kang et al. 2020; Pakpour and Griffiths 2020).”
• Validation of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale in a US College Sample (2020, background): “A crisis in mental health due to the COVID-19 pandemic is likely approaching (Horesh and Brown 2020; Qiu et al. 2020, Rajkumar 2020; Xiang et al. 2020; Pakpour and Griffiths 2020; Lin 2020) for wide segments of the populations of many countries.”
• Social Isolation and Acceptance of the Learning Management System (LMS) in the time of COVID-19 Pandemic: An Expansion of the UTAUT Model (2020, background): “Pakpour and Griffiths (2020) revealed that unexpected and extraordinary situations such as disease outbreaks could cause fear among people, and therefore it is one of the psychological aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic.”