Professional paper
Quarantine and self isolation during COVID-19 pandemic: the psychological predictors of anxiety
Dragana Đokić
Abstract
The pandemic outbreak presents a crisis situation which can harm one’s mental health and cause large scale damage. It is very important to test the psychological function of the human population within the current civilization context, which is the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic. The aim of this paper is researching the most common responses to the pandemic, as well as determining significant predictors of COVID-19 anxiety. There were 445 test subjects (162 male, 281 female), who, at the time of the research, were in self-isolation or quarantine. We found that the most common responses to the pandemic were social anxiety, depression, interpersonal sensitivity and obsessive compulsion. COVID-19 anxiety develops within the borders of moderate anxiety. The correlations of COVID-19 Anxiety Inventory are statistically significant and the strongest in dimensions of Social and Physical sensitivity to anxiety from the construct Sensitivity to the anxiety (OnA) and Depression from the Multidimensional Self-report Symptom Inventory (SCL-90-R). To sum up, we can point out the most significant responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, which are social sensitivity to anxiety, depression and interpersonal sensitivity.
Keywords
COVID-19; quarantine; pandemic; self-isolation
Hrčak ID:
286855
URI
Publication date:
8.12.2022.
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