Table 4.

Correlations between the Cyberchondria Severity Scale (CSS-12) and psychometric questionnaires.

	CSS-12	CAS	HADS-A	SHAI	HADS-D	RSES	IAT	MCQ-HA	WHOQOL	MOCQR
CSS-12	–	0.323**	0.380**	0.560**	0.293**	−0.120**	0.332**	0.450**	−0.158**	0.339**
		p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p =0.004	p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p < 0.001
CAS		–	0.464**	0.345**	0.324**	−0.189**	0.179**	0.261**	−0.172**	0.217**
			p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p < 0.001
HADS-A			–	0.525**	0.644**	−0.490**	0.360**	0.349**	−0.468**	0.484**
				p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p < 0.001
SHAI				–	0.424**	−0.268**	0.366**	0.452**	−0.272**	0.416**
					p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p < 0.001
HADS-D					–	−0.499**	0.371**	0.306**	−0.559**	0.373**
						p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p < 0.001
RSES						–	−0.348**	−0.113**	0.501**	−0.353**
							p < 0.001	p = 0.007	p < 0.001	p < 0.001
IAT							–	0.265**	−0.271**	0.334**
								p < 0.001	p < 0.001	p < 0.001
MCQ-HA								–	−0.236**	0.362**
									p < 0.001	p < 0.001
WHOQOL									–	−0.315**
										p < 0.001
MOCQR										–

CAS, Coronavirus Anxiety Scale; CSS-12, Cyberchondria Severity Scale; HADS, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale; SHAI, Short Health Anxiety Inventory; RSES, Rosenberg's Self-Esteem Scale; IAT, Internet Addiction Test; MOCQR, Maudsley Obsessional-Compulsive Questionnaire; MCQHA, Meta-Cognitions about Health Questionnaire; WHOQOL, WHO Quality of Life-BREF. Spearman's r was used for correlations. Significant correlation,

^**p < 0.05.