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Rafiq, N., Rafique, S., Griffiths, M.D. 
ORCID: 0000-0001-8880-6524 and Pakpour, A.H.,
2023.
Fear of COVID-19 among undergraduate and postgraduate students in Pakistan.
Trends in Psychology, 31 (1), pp. 194-209.
ISSN 2358-1883
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Abstract
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has changed the lifestyles of individuals all over the world, induced a fear of virus transmission and confusion, and brought about many other potentially devastating psychological impacts. To minimize the spread of COVID-19, governments all over the world have implemented various practices including lockdowns, home quarantines, spatial distancing, and online teaching within schools, colleges, and/or universities. The present cross-sectional study was carried out to investigate the associations between socio-demographic factors and fear of COVID-19 among undergraduate and postgraduate students in public universities Lahore, Pakistan. Data were collected utilizing an online Google Forms survey based on a convenience sample of 397 undergraduate and postgraduate students of public universities (78% female; mean age = 24 years), enrolled in the subject of education (54%) and psychology (46%) when the virus was spreading rapidly throughout Pakistan. All the participants completed the Fear of COVID-19 Scale and questions concerning socio-demographic variables. Results indicated that the fear of COVID-19 was higher among the education students and female students. Fear of COVID 19 (i.e., scores on the FCV-19S) was positively associated with the participants’ personal or family history of illness and number of deaths in family. The level of fear of COVID-19 was different among the students who had physical illness, psychological illness, and no any history of illness personally or in their family.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||||
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| Publication Title: | Trends in Psychology | ||||||
| Creators: | Rafiq, N., Rafique, S., Griffiths, M.D. and Pakpour, A.H. | ||||||
| Publisher: | Springer | ||||||
| Date: | March 2023 | ||||||
| Volume: | 31 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2358-1883 | ||||||
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| Rights: | Post-prints are subject to Springer Nature re-use terms | ||||||
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences | ||||||
| Record created by: | Laura Ward | ||||||
| Date Added: | 09 Nov 2021 09:56 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 13 Mar 2023 14:38 | ||||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/44654 |
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