Abstract:

Covid-19 is recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) as one of the most serious viruses recently experienced. So the World Health Organization declared the covid-19 virus as a pandemic since March 2020. This announcement shows that the covid-19 virus has been spreading to all regions of the world. The spreading of the virus rapidly and a highly death rates cause increasing of psychological problems -fear, anxiety, etc. in humans. Based on these facts, we focused to determine the anxiety, fear and individual religiosity of people in Kosovo against the reality of covid-19. We also tried to recognize the relationship between the fear caused by covid-19 and individual piety, age, gender, education and economic status. This article is a kind of field study wherein the survey technique is used and in accord with screening method. The sample consists of individuals (N = 152) in Kosovo. In the sampling "Fear of Covid-19", "Common Anxiety Disorder" and "Individual Religion Inventory" were applied. According to the findings there is a significant difference between individual religiosity and covid-19 anxiety, gender, educational and economic status. Also, there is positive between covid-19 fear and anxiety variables it has not been determined that there is a negative correlation between fear of covid-19 and praying five times a day and fasting in Ramadan.

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