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http://dx.doi.org/10.15207/JKCS.2020.11.11.309

The Effect of Social Support on Anxiety in Pandemics (COVID-19): The Mediated Effect of Social Trust  

Yang, Mi-Ra (ROKAF 1st Fighter Wing)
Kim, Hae-Sook (Department of Counseling Psychology, Honam University)
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Journal of the Korea Convergence Society / v.11, no.11, 2020 , pp. 309-319 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, we looked at the relationship among the anxiety, social support and trust experienced by the general public during the pandemic situation (COVID-19), and confirmed the effect of trust to the relationship between social support and anxiety. First, the correlations analysis that was performed to identify the relationship among the variables showed negative correlation between social support and anxiety. While it was also found that social support showed positive correlations with social trust, no significant correlations were shown with regards to government trust. Furthermore, government trust and social trust showed negative correlations with anxiety. Second, the regression analysis was conducted to verify the hypothesis that social support would affect anxiety through social trust. It showed that social trust partly mediated in the relationship between social support and anxiety. Based on the results above, the discussions and suggestions were presented throughout the study.
Keywords
COVID-19; Social Support; Anxiety related to COVID-19; Trust; Social trust; Government trust;
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