Coronavirus phobia as predictor of intolerance for uncertainty, subjective well-being, psychological resilience among adolescents

The aim of this study is to reveal how intolerance of uncertainty, subjective well-being and psychological resilience of adolescents who experience coronavirus phobia during the coronavirus pandemic are affected. The study was organized in a convergent mixed design model in which both quantitative and qualitative data were collected. The study focuses on high school students in Ankara province during the coronavirus pandemic, obtaining permission from the Hacettepe University Ethics Commission for data collection. "Coronavirus Phobia Scale", "Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale", "Adolescent Subjective Well-Being Scale", "Child and Adolescent Psychological Resilience Scale" and "Personal Information Form" were used to collect quantitative data. The scales were applied to 1024 adolescents and 1011 of them were found to be suitable for analysis. Quantitative data were analyzed in SPSS 21 program. According to the results of the analysis, adolescents' coronavirus phobias predicted intolerance of uncertainty, subjective well-being, but not psychological resilience. The differentiation of adolescents' coronavirus phobias, intolerance of uncertainty, subjective well-being and psychological resilience according to gender, high school type, whether they or their family members were infected with coronavirus, and whether they lost a relative due to coronavirus were analyzed. Qualitative data were collected from 27 adolescents studying in 9th, 10th and 11th grades. Interviews were analyzed in NVivo program. Qualitative data results showed that there was a relationship between adolescents' coronavirus phobia and intolerance of uncertainty, subjective well-being and psychological resilience. The study's findings, based on qualitative data, were analyzed within the literature framework, offering recommendations for researchers, practitioners, and administrators.