The Impact of Interpretation Biases on Psychological Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Prospective Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study investigates the longitudinal role of interpretation biases in the development and maintenance of health anxiety during the pandemic. Individual differences in behavioural responses to the virus outbreak and decision-making were also examined.

Methods

Two hundred seventy-nine individuals from a pre-pandemic study of interpretation bias and health anxiety completed an online survey during the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong. Participants' health anxiety, interpretation biases, and COVID-specific behaviours (i.e. practice of social distancing, adherence to preventive measures, information seeking), and health decision-making were assessed.

Results

Pre-pandemic tendencies to interpret ambiguous physical sensations as signals for ill

SUBMITTER: Chan FHF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8926100 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature