Neuropsychiatr Invest. 2022;(X):1-7 1 Original Article Examining the Relationship Between Coronavirus Anxiety and Cognitive Failures Hasibe Arıcan , Hatice Kafadar Department of Psychology, Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University, Faculty of Science and Letters, Bolu, Turkey Corresponding author: Hasibe Arıcan e-mail: hasibearicann@gmail.com Received: May 25, 2022 Accepted: October 18, 2022 Publication Date: November 27, 2022 10.5152/NeuropsychiatricInvest.2022.22012 Cite this article as: Arıcan H, Kafadar H. Examining the relationship between coronavirus anxiety and cognitive failures. Neuropsychiatr Invest. November 27, 2022. DOI: 10.5152/NeuropsychiatricInvest.2022.220012 ABSTRACT Objective: Throughout the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, it is critical to look at the impact of high levels of worry and stress on people’s cognitive health. This study examines the relationship between anxi- ety, despair, and perception of threat as coronavirus disease 2019 distress and cognitive failures. Methods: The sample of the study consisted of 818 people aged between 18 and 81 years. Structural equation modeling was carried out to reveal the existing relationships. In addition, demographic variables that predict cognitive failures during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic period are expressed in the simple linear regression analysis. Finally, an independent samples t-test was applied according to gender for anxiety, despair, perception of threat, cognitive failures, perception, attention, forgetting, and motor functioning. Results: The results obtained from the structural equation modeling show that the coronavirus disease 2019 distress latent variables (anxiety, despair, and perception of threat) predict perception, attention, forgetting, and motor functioning during the pandemic period. It was found that cognitive failures were predicted by age, gender, educational status, media exposure, having a chronic disease, and compliance with hygiene rules. Conclusion: In cognitive failures total score, perception, forgetting, attention, and motor functioning men exhibit more cognitive failures than women during the pandemic period. Women have higher anxiety and perception of threat scores than men. Keywords: COVID-19, anxiety, cognitive failures, attention, perception, forgetting INTRODUCTION The self-isolation measures implemented to retard the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID- 19) may negatively afect the mental health of the population. A novel COVID-19 outbreak was dis- covered in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, in December 2019. Then COVID-19 spread quickly to the neighboring countries, causing a public health disaster that drew international attention. A global epidemic has been declared by the World Health Organization. 1 On March 13, 2020, the frst COVID-19 case in Turkey was announced. For this reason, the Turkish Government implemented measures such as home quarantine and social isolation, social distance, continuing education online, and working remotely. Copyright@Author(s) - Available online at neuropsychiatricinvestigation.org. Content of this journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.