Coronavirus Anxiety, Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy and Health-Related Quality of Life among University Students during Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

This study was conducted to explore the role of coronavirus anxiety and regulatory emotional self-efficacy as correlates and predictors of health-related Quality of Life among university students during COVID-19 pandemic. The correlational research design was used. Data was gathered from 200 participants (Males=100 & Females=100) using the purposive sampling technique. The following measures were utilized subsequently to gather the data: Demographic Information Sheet, Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (Lee, 2020), Regulatory Emotional Self-efficacy Scale (Caprara et al., 2008) and Covid-19 Impact on Quality of Life Scale (Repišti et al., 2020). The findings of the study depicts that coronavirus anxiety and perceived self-efficacy in expressing positive affect significantly correlate and predict impact on health-related-Quality of Life (QoL). In the current study, female university students showed higher level of coronavirus anxiety and impact on health-related Quality of Life whereas the male students displayed increased state of perceived self-efficacy in expressing negative affect. In order to identify the predictors of HR-QoL, hours per day news watched by students and coronavirus anxiety emerged as the significant positive predictors of Health-related QoL among university students. This indicates that number of hours of news watched by students and students with high coronavirus anxiety had a higher impact on their Health-related QoL.