A Psychometric Analysis of Fear of COVID-19 Scale in India

Lathabhavan, Remya

doi:10.1007/s11469-021-00657-1

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“…Possible scores ranged from 8 to 40 and were tabulated by summing the responses to each item, with higher scores indicating greater FOC. The scale has been used in India previously with good internal consistency (Bharatharaj et al, 2021;Lathabhavan, 2021) and demonstrated high internal consistency in the present study (Cronbach's alpha [α] = .92).…”

Section: Fear Of Coronavirus (Foc)mentioning

confidence: 70%

Caste and COVID‐19: Psychosocial disparities amongst rural Indian women during the coronavirus pandemic

Jiwani

Raval

Steele

et al. 2022

Journal of Social Issues

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The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated preexisting mental health disparities. In India, marginalization based on caste membership, gender, and rural residence are critical determinants of inequity across the lifespan. Guided by the theoretical frameworks of minority stress and intersectionality, this study examined caste-based disparities in fear of coronavirus (FOC), mental health symptoms, and perceived loneliness amongst rural women in north India during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants (N = 316) completed self-report measures and were classified into three groups based on their responses: General caste (GC, n = 124), other backward castes (OBC, n = 122), and scheduled caste or tribe (SC/ST, n = 71). Using a threeway ANOVA and Tukey t-tests, women in SC/ST and OBC groups reported greater FOC (OBC d = .37; SC/ST d = .40) and greater mental health symptoms (OBC d = .58; SC/ST d = .43) relative to the GC group. OBC, but not SC/ST, group also reported higher perceived loneliness (d = .32). The results were consistent after adjusting for demographic variables such as wealth and highlight caste asThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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Section: Fear Of Coronavirus (Foc)mentioning

confidence: 70%

Caste and COVID‐19: Psychosocial disparities amongst rural Indian women during the coronavirus pandemic

Jiwani

Raval

Steele

et al. 2022

Journal of Social Issues

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“…[7,9,41,43,48,49,52,56,57,63,68] Conversely, the results are inconsistent to that of other studies where 2 factor models, emotional and physical response, were found to be better fit in the bifactorial structure than that of the unidimensional structure found in the current study. [6,37,47,51,55,62,63,69,70] It is also important to note that in other studies, FCV-19s was found to have 1 factor and 2 factor models. [37,55,70] Cronbach's alpha score tested the reliability of FCV-19s and found good reliability (α = 0.884).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 84%

Re-testing the psychometric properties of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19s)

Garcia

2022

JNEP

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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about multi-faceted effects, including deleterious physical and mental health concerns. Fear of COVID-19 appears to result in varying mental and psychological symptoms among those in contact to patients with the disease. The study aimed to test the psychometric properties of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19s) in accurately measuring fear brought by the pandemic. One-hundred nineteen (119) hospital staff who were nurses currently working in private and/or public hospitals in Pampanga, who has had previous and/or current contact with COVID-19 patients, and are in optimal mental health state, were purposefully selected to participate in this study. Methodological research was employed to statistically test the psychometric properties of FCV-19s using exploratory factor analysis to test factor structure; Cronbach’s alpha to test internal reliability; and Pearson r with the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-21) to test concurrent validity. Statistical tests of the FCV-19s showed a single-factor structure, a Cronbach’s alpha score of 0.884, and a moderate correlation with DASS-21 (0.428). The present study was able to confirm the unidimensional construct, reliability, and concurrent validity of FCV-19s. Results contribute to the body of knowledge in terms of the accurate assessment of fear brought by the COVID-19.

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“…Although the factor structure originally proposed by Ahorsu et al (2020) was a one-factor congeneric model, here we have included the one-factor τ-equivalent model to check for the appropriateness of reporting the α coefficient as a reliability index for the FCV-19S, since only the one-factor τ-equivalent model meets the underlying assumptions of the α coefficient, and this reliability index has been reported in the majority of the studies where the scale was used and was also the main effect size index synthesized in the study of Blázquez-Rinco ´n, Durán and Botella (2022). At the same time, several studies informed that a two-factor model yields a better fit to the data than the original one-factor congeneric model (Andrade et al, 2022;Barrios et al, 2021;Bellamkonda & Pattusamy, 2022;Caycho-Rodríguez, Valencia, et al, 2022;Fatfouta & Rogoza, 2021;Iversen et al, 2022;Lathabhavan, 2023;Magano et al, 2021;Midorikawa et al, 2021;Reznik et al, 2021), we, therefore, considered it necessary to compare the fit between these two measurement models.…”

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confidence: 95%

“…The main limitations of our work come from the novelty of the techniques used. In the first place, we left out from the analyses one study that met the selection criteria (Lathabhavan, 2023) because of statistical reasons (nonpositive definite matrices cannot be integrated). This is something that would have not happened in a traditional meta-analysis, in which the statistics of interest from all selected primary studies would have been pooled.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Fear of COVID-19 Scale: A meta-analytic structural equation modeling approach.

Blázquez-Rincón,

Aguayo-Estremera,

Alimoradi

et al. 2023

Psychological Assessment

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The widespread administration and multiple validations of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S) in different languages have highlighted the controversy over its underlying structure and the resulting reliability index. In the present study, a meta-analysis based on structural equation modeling (MASEM) was conducted to assess the internal structure of the seven-item, 5-point Likert-type FCV-19S version, estimate an overall reliability index from the underlying model that best reflected the internal structure (one τ-equivalent factor, one congeneric factor, or two-factor models), and perform moderator analyses for the model-implied interitem correlations and estimated factor loadings. A Pearson interitem correlation matrix was obtained for 48 independent studies, from which a pooled matrix was calculated following a random-effects multivariate meta-analysis. The results from the one-stage MASEM analysis showed that the two-factor model properly fitted the pooled matrix, while the τ-equivalent and congeneric one-factor models did not. Even though, the use of a bifactor model exhibited the predominance of the general factor over the domain-specific ones. High omega coefficients were obtained for the entire scale (.91) and the psychological (.83) and physiological (.83) symptoms subscales. Moderator analyses evidenced an increase in the estimated factor loadings, as well as in the reliability of the FCV-19S, when the standard deviation of the total scores increased and when the FCV-19S was administered to specific (vs. general) populations. The FCV-19S can be therefore considered as a highly related two-factor scale whose reliability makes it suitable for applied and research purposes.

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A Psychometric Analysis of Fear of COVID-19 Scale in India

Cited by 17 publications

References 34 publications

Caste and COVID‐19: Psychosocial disparities amongst rural Indian women during the coronavirus pandemic

Caste and COVID‐19: Psychosocial disparities amongst rural Indian women during the coronavirus pandemic

Re-testing the psychometric properties of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19s)

The Fear of COVID-19 Scale: A meta-analytic structural equation modeling approach.

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