Modeling the effect of personality type D, obsessive beliefs and disease perception on corona anxiety caused by holding face-to-face classes in middle school teachers of Mazandaran province

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Abbas Nasimi ¹ , Pantea Jahangir ² , Leila Zoghi ³

1 - Department of Educational Management,tonekabon branch, islamic azad university, tonekabon, iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Counseling Department, Roudhen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Roudhen, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Amin University of Police Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2023-12-16 Accepted : 2024-08-29 Published : 2024-09-07

Keywords: Corona anxiety, D personality type, obsessive beliefs, disease perception, emotional self-regulation..,

Abstract :

The physical and mental health of teachers as one of the influential groups in the educational society of the country is essential and the emergence of critical conditions such as the corona virus epidemic has affected the mental health of teachers. The aim of the current research was to model the effect of personality type D, obsessive beliefs and disease perception on corona anxiety caused by holding face-to-face classes among secondary school teachers in Mazandaran province.Materials and methods: In terms of purpose, the research is applied, and in terms of research method, it is descriptive of the correlation type. The statistical population of first and second secondary teachers in Mazandaran province in the spring and summer of 1400 was unlimited and 800 questionnaires were distributed using the available sampling method. The data collection tools were Denault's personality type D questionnaires, obsessive beliefs, Bradbent et al.'s (2006), emotional self-regulation by Hoffman and Kashdan (2010) and coronavirus anxiety, whose validity is construct validity (convergent validity range between 0.376 to 0.571 and divergent validity is more than the correlation of the structure with other structures) and its reliability by three methods Cronbach's alpha coefficient (between 0.807 and 0.938), factor loading coefficients (more than 0.4) And composite reliability (between 0.866 and 0.945) was confirmed. Structural equation modeling was used and the data was analyzed through SPSS and Smart PLS software with path analysis test.Findings: D personality type (path coefficient 0.206 and t-value 6.405), obsessive beliefs (0.194 and 5.896) and disease perception (-0.198 and 5.891), anxiety caused by Corona predicted, D personality type (-0.225 and 6.824), obsessive beliefs (-0.246 and 6.751) and disease perception (0.189 and 5.638),