Abstract
Background: Many frontline workers are at high risk of the infection of coronavirus and they might develop mental ill- health indicators particularly fear of coronavirus and Posttraumatic stress disorders. Literature reviews revealed that this depends on their coping strategies which are rarely discussed and investigated within Jordanian context. This study aims at investigating the prediction ability of the coping strategies in mental ill-health indicators among frontline workers during coronavirus pandemic. Participants are 408 volunteer frontline workers; 17.2%females and 82.8%males. Ages ranged between (less than 25 and over than 25) years, work place (Ministry of Health 54.5% and Civil Defense 45.5%), Major (doctors 18.6%, nurses 21.6%, paramedic 33.3%, others 26.5%). Participants are asked to fill out online self-report measures of brief coping, fear of coronavirus and Posttraumatic stress disorders.Results: The results show that coping strategies predicted 28.8% of the variance in fear of coronavirus and 43.6% of the variance in Posttraumatic stress disorders. Moreover, there is a low level of fear of coronavirus and Posttraumatic stress disorders also there are no significant differences in the level of fear of coronavirus in favor to study variables. At the same time, there are significant differences in the level of Posttraumatic stress disorders in favor to males: but not for other study variables. Conclusion: Mental ill-health indicators are predicted by coping strategies that frontline workers use.