Comparison of rumination, Sense of helplessness, and magnification at different ages and their relation to stress coping styles in visitors of a mental health monitoring website during the first week of coronavirus outbreaks

Subject Areas : Educational

Peyman Dousti ¹ , narges hosseininia ² , Golnaz Ghodrati ³ , Mohammad Esmaeil Ebrahimi ⁴

1 - Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University of Tehran North, Tehran, Iran
2 - Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University of Science and Research, Tehran, Iran.
3 - Department of Psychology, Khatam University, Tehran, Iran.
4 - Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University of Hamadan, Hamadan, Iran.

Received: 2020-03-10 Accepted : 2020-04-01 Published : 2020-07-22

Keywords: stress coping styles, COVID-19, catastrophizing, online assessment of mental status,

Abstract :

The aim of this study was Comparison of rumination, sense of helplessness, and magnification at different ages and their relation to stress coping styles in visitors of a mental health monitoring website during the first week of coronavirus outbreaks. This research was descriptive and correlational. The statistical population of the study was consisted of all visitors to a mental health assessment website during the period of February 21st to 29th, 2020. The sample of this study consisted of 933 visitors who purposefully answered Catastrophizing Scale (Sullivan, 2009), and Coping Styles Questionnaire (Endler & Parker, 1990). Data were analyzed using analysis of variance and Pearson’s correlation coefficient. The result showed that there was a significant difference between subjective rumination, Sense of helplessness, and magnification at different ages of society at the time of the outbreak of coronavirus (P <0.05). Rumination was different at different ages. The sense of helplessness was less with age. Magnification was less common in people over 45 years old. Correlation between variables showed that problem solving coping strategy was negatively related to feelings of helplessness, magnification, and rumination (P>0.05). Emotionalism was positive relation with all three variables (P>0.05). Avoidance was positive relation with magnification and rumination (P>0.05).

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