القلق و الضغوط و الاكتئاب كتغيرات وسيطة بين الخوف من جائحة كورونا ( COVID-19)‎ و جودة الحياة لعينة في المجتمع العربي

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objective: the study aimed to determine the levels of fear of covid-19, depression, anxiety, and stress during the second wave of corona pandemic; the differences on fear and psychological disturbances according to demographic variables (sex, nationality, previous knowledge to the relatives or friends affected by a virus), construct causal model explain the relationships among study variables, and explore the indirect effect of fear of covid-19 on quality of life via depression, anxiety, and stress.

Methodology: data were collected through electronic survey from 924 participant, sex 197(21.3%) male and 727(78.7%) female, age (M=26.91, SD=9.77), nationality 723(78.3%) Egyptian and 200 (21.3%) from different Arab countries.

the study used fear of Covid-19 scale (Amer, 2020a), the depression, anxiety, stress (DAAS21) (Lovibond & Lovibond, 1995), and quality of life (Amer, 2020c).data were analyzed using SPSS (26) and MPLUS (7).

Results: In total, 25.78% of respondents reported high fear of covid-19, 26.16% reported high depression, 22.51% reported high anxiety, and 26.91% high psychological stress.

Study revealed that there were significant differences on fear, depression, anxiety, and stress according sex (for female), nationality (for Egyptian sample), previous knowledge to relatives and friends affected by corona virus (for previous knowledge); significant positive correlation among fear and anxiety, depression, and stress while weak negative correlation with quality of life.

There are significant positive effects from fear on depression, anxiety, and stress while weak significant negative effects from depression and stress on quality of life.

There are weak negative mediated effects from fear of covid-19 on quality of life via depression, anxiety and stress.

Conclusion: A quarter of the sample in Arab society reported high levels from fear of Corona pandemic, depression, anxiety, and stress.

These psychological impacts have weak effect on quality of life.

Fear of covid-19 has weak negative indirect role on quality of life during second wave of the pandemic.

The findings would need to be verified in large and different populations in Arab society.