Fear of COVID-19, Resilience, and Future Anxiety: Psychometric Properties of the Turkish Version of the Dark Future Scale-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Fear of COVID-19, Resilience, and Future Anxiety: Psychometric Properties of the Turkish Version of the Dark Future Scale

Published:2023-03-29 Issue:4 Volume:13 Page:597
ISSN:2075-4426
Container-title:Journal of Personalized Medicine
language:en
Short-container-title:JPM

Author:

Yıldırım Murat¹^ORCID,Kaynar Ömer²,Arslan Gökmen³,Chirico Francesco⁴⁵^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Psychology, Faculty of Science and Letters, Agri Ibrahim Cecen University, 04100 Agri, Turkey

2. Department of Coaching Education, Faculty of Sports Sciences, Mus Alparslan University, 49250 Mus, Turkey

3. Department of Guidance and Psychological Counseling, Faculty of EducationMehmet Akif Ersoy University, 15030 Burdur, Turkey

4. Post-Graduate School of Occupational Health, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 00168 Rome, Italy

5. Health Service Department, Italian State Police, Ministry of the Interior, 20127 Milan, Italy

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many disruptions to individuals’ everyday lives and caused wide-ranging, drastic effects on their well-being, mental health, and physical health. This study sought to validate the Dark Future Scale (DFS) and examine its reliability and validity in Turkish. The present study also examined the relationship between fear of COVID-19, dark future anxiety, and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey. Four hundred and eighty-nine Turkish athletes (mean age = 23.08 ± 6.64) completed measures on fear, anxiety, resilience, and demographic information. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses revealed that the DFS had a one-factor solution with good reliability. Fear of COVID-19 significantly predicted resilience and future anxiety. Furthermore, resilience significantly predicted anxiety and mediated the effect of fear of COVID-19 on future anxiety. The findings have important implications for improving mental health and developing the resiliency of athletes during public health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Medicine (miscellaneous)

Link

https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4426/13/4/597/pdf

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