ATTITUDES TOWARDS COVID-19 AND ANXIETY LEVEL

Abstract

The aim of this research is to verify the relationship between attitudes towards Covid-19 and the level of anxiety, to observe the differences between demographic factors and the level of anxiety, as well as to see the difference between demographic factors and attitudes towards Covid-19.
The purpose of this research is to ascertain whether there is a relationship between attitudes towards Covid-19 and the level of anxiety and to extract data on sociodemographic factors on the level of anxiety and to extract data on demographic factors of attitudes towards Covid-19.
The instrument we used to measure attitudes towards Covid- 19 is a scale constructed from 20 items, with 8 items on personal belief, 5 on knowledge attitude, 2 on normative attitude, and 2 on managerial attitudes. The scale of attitudes towards Covid-19 was developed in 2021 by Mihyeon Seong, Juyoung Park, Soojin Chung, and Sohyune Sok. This instrument has gained high reliability in various studies, even up to 0.92. The instrument that measures the level of anxiety is the Beck questionnaire, consisting of 21 items that specifically measure individual anxiety symptoms. The responses provided range from 1 to 4.
The data obtained show that there are statistically significant differences between gender and the level of anxiety, with females having a higher level of anxiety compared to males who have a lower level, while regarding the place of residence, we found no differences.