Comparison of death anxiety and worry in improved teachers of Covid-19 and non-patients

Hassan jahani zingir¹ Behnam Hamidvand²

1) 1- M.A of General Psychology, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran
2) 2- Bachelor of General Psychology, Payame Noor University, Ardabil Branch, Ardabil, Iran

IOI Code : XEAE-GFECG
Publication : 2th National Conference on Psychopathology(asruma2.ir)
Abstract :
    The aim of this study was to compare death anxiety and worry in improved teachers of Covid-19 and non-patients. The study method was causal-comparative. The statistical population of this study included all teachers in Ardabil in the academic year 2020-2021 when 150 people (73 with Covid-19 and 77 without) were included in the study by available sampling method. The Penn State Worry Questionnaire (Meyer et al., 1990) and the Templer Death Anxiety scale (Templer, 1970) were used to collect data. Data were analyzed by SPSS software version 20 with t-test for two independent groups. Based on the findings, the difference between the two groups of teachers improved from Covid-19 and non-Covid is in the variable of concern (p <0.01). So that the average anxiety scores in teachers improved from Covid-19 are higher than non-affected teachers. But there was no significant difference between the two groups in the variable of death anxiety (p> 0.05). The results indicate the need to pay attention to psychological variables in improved individuals, especially the anxiety variable.

Keywords : death anxiety anxiety covid 19 teachers