The Gender Differences and Coping Mechanism of Dealing With COVID-19

Saeed, T., Tahir, S.*, Tomy, K. N., Mahmood, N., Fernando, A. & Mahalingam, A.

Department of Psychology, Kerry Intervention and Disability Services, Ireland

Dr. Tahir, S., Department of Psychology, Kerry Intervention and Disability Services, Ireland.

Keywords: COVID-19; Anxiety; Pandemic

Abstract

Objective
To understand the psychological impact of Covid-19 on people and to provide support to individuals going through the effect of this pandemic.
Method
A questionnaire with a 5-point Likert scale was developed by a team of psychologists at Kidsheart Medical Center, Abu Dhabi, UAE, to assess and evaluate mainly anxiety due to this pandemic. There were some other auxiliary factors such as the role of religion and perception of the reality of the pandemic, and utilization of time during the quarantine period that were studied. Studying the perception of impact of media was also one of the aims of the research during the pandemic. The questionnaire was circulated using social media platforms and a total of 222 individuals responded from across the world. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to run factor analysis and multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA).

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