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Department of Psychology, Faculty of Literature and Humanity, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran. , Soltani.Psy@gmail.com
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Background: The coronavirus epidemic, caused one of the biggest crises in the field of public health. Despite the central role of dysfunctional health beliefs, how multiple levels of anxiety and its multiple foci influence and play a role in reducing health is largely unclear. It was therefore necessary to conduct studies on the levels of anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Aims: This study aimed to compare health anxiety, multifaceted focus on health control, and COVID-19 anxiety in female students based on irrational health beliefs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: The present study was descriptive and causal-comparative. The statistical population included all female students studying in universities of Guilan province in the first semester of the academic year 2021-2022. Based on convenience sampling, 319 students participated through an online invitation. To collect data, the Corona Anxiety Questionnaire (Alipour et al., 2020), Irrational Health Beliefs Questionnaire (Christensen & Warwick, 1999), Multifaceted Health Control Questionnaire (Wallston et al., 1978), and the revised version of the Health Anxiety Questionnaire (Salicoskis et al., 2002) were used. The collected data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of covariance using SPSS.26 software.
Results: The results of multivariate analysis of covariance showed that internal health control, luck control, negative disease outcome, and overall health anxiety were significantly higher in the group with irrational health beliefs (P< 0.05) and the mean of corona anxiety was higher in people with low irrational beliefs (P< 0.05).
Conclusion: In general, the results of the research showed that people with high scores on the scale of irrational health beliefs report higher scores in internal and chance locus of control, and health anxiety and report lower scores in Corona anxiety. Therefore, evidence-based psychological interventions in the multidimensional direction of anxiety are suggested for these people.
Aims: This study aimed to compare health anxiety, multifaceted focus on health control, and COVID-19 anxiety in female students based on irrational health beliefs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: The present study was descriptive and causal-comparative. The statistical population included all female students studying in universities of Guilan province in the first semester of the academic year 2021-2022. Based on convenience sampling, 319 students participated through an online invitation. To collect data, the Corona Anxiety Questionnaire (Alipour et al., 2020), Irrational Health Beliefs Questionnaire (Christensen & Warwick, 1999), Multifaceted Health Control Questionnaire (Wallston et al., 1978), and the revised version of the Health Anxiety Questionnaire (Salicoskis et al., 2002) were used. The collected data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of covariance using SPSS.26 software.
Results: The results of multivariate analysis of covariance showed that internal health control, luck control, negative disease outcome, and overall health anxiety were significantly higher in the group with irrational health beliefs (P< 0.05) and the mean of corona anxiety was higher in people with low irrational beliefs (P< 0.05).
Conclusion: In general, the results of the research showed that people with high scores on the scale of irrational health beliefs report higher scores in internal and chance locus of control, and health anxiety and report lower scores in Corona anxiety. Therefore, evidence-based psychological interventions in the multidimensional direction of anxiety are suggested for these people.
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Received: 2025/06/1 | Accepted: 2025/08/6 | Published: 2026/03/21
Received: 2025/06/1 | Accepted: 2025/08/6 | Published: 2026/03/21
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