Open AccessIT’S NOT WHAT IT SEEMS! THE MEDIATING ROLE OF SELF-EFFICACY IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRAIT-ANXIETY AND INTOLERANCE OF UNCERTAINTY DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Author(s) -
Livia ȚÂNCULESCU-POPA
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
bulletin of the "transilvania" university of braşov. series vii, social sciences and law
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2066-771X
pISSN - 2066-7701
DOI - 10.31926/but.ssl.2021.14.63.1.3
Subject(s) - anxiety , trait , psychology , mediation , trait anxiety , clinical psychology , covid-19 , developmental psychology , medicine , disease , psychiatry , political science , computer science , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law , programming language
The current research is aimed at studying the relationship between trait anxiety and intolerance of uncertainty, with its both facets: the inhibitory and the prospective anxiety and to establish whether or not the general self-efficacy plays a mediating role between the trait-anxiety and intolerance of uncertainty. Results show that a partial mediation takes part when general self-efficacy mediates the relationship between the intolerance of uncertainty, inhibitory anxiety, but a limited mediation when general selfefficacy interferes in the relationship between the trait-anxiety and intolerance of uncertainty, perspective anxiety. The main benefit of this paper is to demystify the impact of self-efficacy especially in unexpected, unknown situations, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.