Psychological resilience as a modifler variable for the relationship between depression and hypochondria of the medical staff of theCovid-19virus

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Postgraduate student, Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Fayoum University

2 Professor of Psychology - Faculty of Arts - Fayoum University

3 Faculty of Arts - Fayoum University

Abstract

The current research aims to explore the role of psychological resilience as a modifier variable for the relationship between depression and hypochondria of the medical staff of the Covid-19 virus, meaning that psychological resilience affects the relationship between the variable of depression and the variable of hypochondria of the disease of the medical staff of the Covid-19 virus, through a sample of sixty-five participants From the medical staff of the Covid-19 virus, including doctors, nurses, and health personnel ranging in age from 22 to 50 years, where the Beck scale was used to measure the depression variable consisting of twenty-one items, and the hypochondriacal scale (prepared by the researcher) consisting of twenty-three items, and the scale Flexibility Psychological, (Salem Al-Athari 2016) consisting of eighteen items, and the results supported the first hypothesis that there is a strong relationship between the depression variable and the hypochondriac variable, and did not support the second hypothesis, which is that psychological resilience is a modified variable for the relationship between depression and hypochondria among the medical staff of the Covid-19 virus That is, with the exclusion of the psychological resilience variable, there is a strong relationship between the depression variable and the hypochondriac variable of the Covid-19 medical staff.

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