Perception of Vulnerability and Ruminant Thoughts about COVID-19 in Spanish Students

• Published in: European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education (EJIHPE) Vol. 12; no. 10; pp. 1463 - 1470
• Main Authors: Figueredo, José-María, García-Ael, Cristina, Topa, Gabriela
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.10.2022; MDPI
• Subjects: Academic achievement; academic performance; Analysis; Anxiety; Brief Report; Cognitive Processes; College Students; Compulsory education; Coronaviruses; Correlation; Correlation analysis; COVID; COVID-19; Depression (Psychology); Disease; Disease susceptibility; Doctoral Degrees; Females; Gender differences; Higher education; Hypotheses; Individual Differences; Information Processing; Mental depression; Negative Attitudes; Pandemics; perceived vulnerability to disease; Perceptions; Professional Training; Questionnaires; Regression (Statistics); Regression analysis; rumination; Students; Variables; Vocational Education; Womens health; Spain
• ISSN: 2254-9625; 2174-8144; 2254-9625
• DOI: 10.3390/ejihpe12100101

The current situation in schools in relation to COVID-19 can generate a decrease in academic performance due to factors intrinsic to students. Therefore, rumination about COVID-19 could interfere with students’ attention, resulting in a decrease in their academic performance. Therefore, the objective of this study was to explore the relationship between the perception of vulnerability to the disease and rumination about COVID-19 from a cross-sectional sample of post-compulsory education students. The differences in the perception of vulnerability to disease and rumination in different groups were analyzed, separated by gender. Our data suggest a positive relationship between the perception of vulnerability to the disease and ruminants’ thoughts about COVID-19 (r = 0.29). Gender differences are significant, with women having higher scores than men in both variables.