Creencias conspirativas y religiosidad relacionados con el miedo a la COVID-19 en estudiantes universitarios de Lima Metropolitana

• Autores: Huerta Rosales, Rosa Elena, Santivañez Olulo, Renato Willy, Peña Tomas, Betty Giovanna, Lévano Muchotrigo, José Raúl
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2025
• Institución: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe:article/30593
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/psico/article/view/30593
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Miedo al Covid-19; creencias conspirativas; religiosidad; universitarios; Fear of COVID-19; conspiracy beliefs; religiosity; university students

This study analyzes the association between religiosity and conspiracy beliefs with fear of COVID-19 in a sample of 661 university students, of both sexes, from public and private universities in Lima, Peru. Sociodemographic data were collected, along with the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (Ahorsu, 2020), the Religiosity Scale (Gorsuch & Venable, 1983), and the General Conspiracist Beliefs Scale (Rezende et al., 2021). Results showed that women reported higher levels of fear of COVID-19 but lower levels of intrinsic religiosity, personal extrinsic religiosity, and social extrinsic religiosity, although the magnitude of these differences was small. Furthermore, participants with higher levels of fear of COVID-19 tended to show stronger beliefs in extraterrestrial cover-up conspiracies and lower levels of all dimensions of religiosity. At the multivariate level, according to logistic regression, social extrinsic religiosity and conspiracy beliefs related to global conspiracies, extraterrestrial cover-ups, and information control were significant predictors of high levels of fear of COVID-19. Among these, social extrinsic religiosity was the strongest predictor, increasing the likelihood of elevated fear.