Psychological Factors Related to Fear of COVID-19 in the General Salvadoran Population
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Marlon Elías Lobos-Rivera 1 , Edgardo René Chacón-Andrade 1 , Mauricio Cervigni 2 3 4 , Miguel Gallegos 5 6 7 , Pablo Martino 2 3 4 , Tomás Caycho-Rodríguez 8 * , Ignacio Barés 2 9 10 , Manuel Calandra 2 9 10 , Angélica Nohemy Flores-Monterrosa 1 , Víctor Manuel Ventura-Hernández 1
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1 Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador, EL SALVADOR2 Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, ARGENTINA3 Centro de Investigación de Neurociencias de Rosario (CINR-UNR), Rosario, ARGENTINA4 Centro interdisciplinario de investigaciones en ciencias de la salud y del comportamiento (CIISAC), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, ARGENTINA5 Universidad Católica del Maule, CHILE6 Pontificia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, BRAZIL7 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, ARGENTINA8 Universidad Privada del Norte, PERU9 Centro de Investigación en Neurociencias de Rosario, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, ARGENTINA10 Laboratorio de Cognición y Emoción, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, ARGENTINA* Corresponding Author

Abstract

Introduction: The objective of this article is to determine the psychological factors which are associated with the fear toward COVID-19 as experienced by the Salvadoran population in general.
Method: This study is exploratory, with a cross-sectional design. For data collection a digital survey in Google Forms was used. There was a non-probabilistic sample of 328 Salvadorans. The mean age in general was 27.90 years-old, with a standard deviation (SD) of 9.10; the mean age for men was 29.05 years-old (SD = 9.94), and the mean age for woman was 27.42 years-old (SD = 8.70).
Results: The results reveal the existence of small and medium correlations between anxiety, depression, instrumental support and positive social interaction with the variables of fear to COVID-19; the regression model predicted that the fear to COVID-19 depends on anxiety and affective support, predicting a 23% of fear to COVID-19, with medium effect.
Conclusion: This research suggests anxiety and affective support are explanation of the 23% of fear towards COVID-19 in Salvadoran population in general, findings provide useful information for future researches which perform a follow up or intervention in Salvadoran population in general.

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Article Type: Original Article

ELECTRON J GEN MED, Volume 19, Issue 2, April 2022, Article No: em351

https://doi.org/10.29333/ejgm/11550

Publication date: 14 Jan 2022

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