Religious Conspiracy Theories About the COVID-19 Pandemic Are Associated With Negative Mental Health

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15260%2F22%3A73614690" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15260/22:73614690 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://www.ssph-journal.org/articles/10.3389/ijph.2022.1604324/full#h7" target="_blank" >https://www.ssph-journal.org/articles/10.3389/ijph.2022.1604324/full#h7</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/ijph.2022.1604324" target="_blank" >10.3389/ijph.2022.1604324</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Religious Conspiracy Theories About the COVID-19 Pandemic Are Associated With Negative Mental Health

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Together with the COVID-19 pandemic, conspiracy theories have begun to spread. Evidence is lacking for religious conspiracy theories (RCT) related to COVID-19 in a non-religious environment. This study aimed to assess links between religiosity and spirituality (R/S) and RCT about COVID-19, and to examine their associations with mental health.A sample of Czech adults (n = 1,273, mean age = 47.5, SD = 16.4; 51.5% male) participated in the survey. We measured R/S, RCT, negative religious coping (NRC), feelings impairment and mental health symptoms. We found R/S were significantly associated with RCT with β 0.71 (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.59–0.82) for the strongest association. Moreover, RCT and NRC were strongly associated with paranoia, anxiety and depression. The most frequent association was found for NRC and paranoid ideation, with β of 0.35 (95% CI 0.26–0.44). Our findings showed associations between religiosity/spirituality and beliefs in religious conspiracy theories about COVID-19. Moreover, these RCT and negative religious coping were linked to higher possibility of mental health problems. Understanding these associations may help prevent this negative impact and contribute to the effectiveness of psychotherapeutic help.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Religious Conspiracy Theories About the COVID-19 Pandemic Are Associated With Negative Mental Health

Popis výsledku anglicky

Together with the COVID-19 pandemic, conspiracy theories have begun to spread. Evidence is lacking for religious conspiracy theories (RCT) related to COVID-19 in a non-religious environment. This study aimed to assess links between religiosity and spirituality (R/S) and RCT about COVID-19, and to examine their associations with mental health.A sample of Czech adults (n = 1,273, mean age = 47.5, SD = 16.4; 51.5% male) participated in the survey. We measured R/S, RCT, negative religious coping (NRC), feelings impairment and mental health symptoms. We found R/S were significantly associated with RCT with β 0.71 (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.59–0.82) for the strongest association. Moreover, RCT and NRC were strongly associated with paranoia, anxiety and depression. The most frequent association was found for NRC and paranoid ideation, with β of 0.35 (95% CI 0.26–0.44). Our findings showed associations between religiosity/spirituality and beliefs in religious conspiracy theories about COVID-19. Moreover, these RCT and negative religious coping were linked to higher possibility of mental health problems. Understanding these associations may help prevent this negative impact and contribute to the effectiveness of psychotherapeutic help.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA19-19526S" target="_blank" >GA19-19526S: Biologické a psychologické aspekty spirituálního prožívání a jejich souvislost se zdravím</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

International Journal of Public Health

ISSN

1661-8556

e-ISSN

1661-8564

Svazek periodika

67

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

AUG 26 2022

Stát vydavatele periodika

CH - Švýcarská konfederace

Počet stran výsledku

10

Strana od-do

nestrankovano

Kód UT WoS článku

000884788500001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85137694961