Health-Related Cognitions and Metacognitions Indirectly Contribute to the Relationships Between Impulsivity, Fear of COVID-19, and Cyberchondria

EŞKİSU M., Çam Z., Boysan M.

Journal of Rational - Emotive and Cognitive - Behavior Therapy, cilt.42, sa.1, ss.110-132, 2024 (SSCI) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 42 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2024
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1007/s10942-022-00495-7
  • Dergi Adı: Journal of Rational - Emotive and Cognitive - Behavior Therapy
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, ASSIA, Psycinfo
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.110-132
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Impulsivity, Cyberchondria, Metacognitions, Fear of COVID-19, Measurement invariance
  • Erzincan Binali Yıldırım Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.The aim of the study was to converge a structural equation model to unfold the compositive relationships between trait impulsivity, health cognitions, metacognitions about health, fear of COVID-19 and cyberchondria, after controlling for gender, age, marital status, having a chronic illness and chronic illness among first-degree relatives. Six hundred fifty-one participants (423 females, 65%; 228 males, 35%) participated in the study. The Short UPPS-P Impulsive Behavior Scale (S-UPPS-P), Health Cognitions Questionnaire (HCQ), The Meta-Cognitions about Health Questionnaire (MCQ-HA), Cyberchondria Severity Scale –Short Form (CSS-12), and Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19 S) were completed by volunteered participants. The structural model showed that the S-UPPS-P directly and indirectly contributed to the HCQ, MCQ-HA, CSS-12, and FCV-19 S. The multi-group structural analysis by gender showed that the structural model had a partial measurement and factorial invariance. We concluded that the significant associations between impulsivity, fear of COVID-19 and cyberchondria were indirectly contributed by health-related cognitions and metacognitions.