Abstract

The study aims to investigate the level of anxiety responses and differences related to some variables due to COVID-19 among a sample of Palestinian university students and to verify the COVID-19 anxiety responses scale using the descriptive method on a random sample of 500 individuals. The results show that the level of anxiety responses due to COVID-19 among Palestinian university students and its two factors, emotional and behavioral, were moderate as the mean for the total score is 3.40 and draws a percentage of 60.0%. The behavioral responses were the highest with a mean of 3.56 and a percentage of 71.2% while the emotional responses came with a mean of 3.28 and a percentage of 65.6%. In addition, there are no statistically significant differences in anxiety responses due to COVID-19 according to educational level or marital status; however, the differences are significant in favor of females and higher age groups.