Assessing the influence of personality and health beliefs on variability of COVID-19 fear among Egyptians: a cross-sectional study

Middle East Current Psychiatry

Table 2 Association between cognitive factors (HBM items) and scores of fear of COVID-19 scale

Variability		N	Total Fear of corona score		t	P
Variability		N	Mean	SD	t	P
Perceived susceptibility	low susceptibility	406	18.02	5.59	1.19	0.23
Perceived susceptibility	high susceptibility	596	18.48	6.20	1.19	0.23
Perceived severity	low severity	418	15.92	5.15	11.33	< 0.001**
Perceived severity	high severity	584	19.99	5.92	11.33	< 0.001**
Hand hygiene Benefits	No	441	17.45	5.82	4.01	< 0.001**
Hand hygiene Benefits	Yes	561	18.96	6.00	4.01	< 0.001**
Social distance benefits	No	479	17.24	5.53	5.41	< 0.001**
Social distance benefits	Yes	523	19.26	6.18	5.41	< 0.001**
Barriers to hand hygiene	No	604	18.14	6.02	1.02	0.31 NS
Barriers to hand hygiene	Yes	398	18.53	5.87	1.02	0.31 NS
Barriers to social distance	No	462	17.88	5.75	2.06	0.04*
Barriers to social distance	Yes	540	18.65	6.12	2.06	0.04*
Self-efficacy	Inefficient	547	18.37	6.04	0.42	0.68
Self-efficacy	Efficient	455	18.21	5.87	0.42	0.68

t independent sample t-test **p ≤ 0.001 is statistically highly significant *P < 0.05 is statistically significant