Coronaphobia: Fear and the 2019-nCoV outbreak

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology, University of Regina, Canada. Electronic address: gordon.asmundson@uregina.ca.
² Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Canada. Electronic address: steven.taylor@ubc.ca.

Editorial

Gordon J G Asmundson et al. J Anxiety Disord. 2020 Mar.

. 2020 Mar:70:102196.

doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2020.102196. Epub 2020 Feb 10.

¹ Department of Psychology, University of Regina, Canada. Electronic address: gordon.asmundson@uregina.ca.
² Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Canada. Electronic address: steven.taylor@ubc.ca.

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Incremental validity of coronaphobia: Coronavirus anxiety explains depression, generalized anxiety, and death anxiety.
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