Confirming validity of The Fear of COVID-19 Scale in Japanese with a nationwide large-scale sample

H Midorikawa, M Aiba, A Lebowitz, T Taguchi… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Assessing fear and anxiety regarding COVID-19 viral infection is essential for investigating
mental health during this epidemic. We have developed and validated a Japanese …

Fear of COVID-19 scale: Psychometric characteristics, reliability and validity in the Israeli population

DT Bitan, A Grossman-Giron, Y Bloch, Y Mayer… - Psychiatry …, 2020 - Elsevier
Mental health clinicians worldwide have been expressing concerns regarding the broad
psychological effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nonetheless, only a few studies have thus …

The Japanese version of the Fear of COVID-19 scale: Reliability, validity, and relation to coping behavior

K Wakashima, K Asai, D Kobayashi, K Koiwa… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
COVID-19 is spreading worldwide, causing various social problems. The aim of the present
study was to verify the reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the Fear of COVID …

Psychometric evaluation of the fear of COVID-19 scale among Chinese population

X Chi, S Chen, Y Chen, D Chen, Q Yu, T Guo… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Fear is a negative emotional reaction to or persistent worry over an imminent public health
event like COVID-19. The COVID-Fear Scale was developed in many countries, but not in …

Fear of COVID 19 infection across different cohorts: a scoping review

S Quadros, S Garg, R Ranjan, G Vijayasarathi… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background: Psychological stressors like panic, fear, phobia, etc., are being substantially
reported during the COVID-19 outbreak. In the prior outbreaks, fear of being infected was …

[HTML][HTML] The latent and item structure of COVID-19 fear: A comparison of four COVID-19 fear questionnaires using SEM and network analyses

G Mertens, S Duijndam, T Smeets, P Lodder - Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 2021 - Elsevier
Since the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), several reports have shown that
fear relating to COVID-19 has sharply increased. To measure fear of COVID-19, various …

Experiencing fear during the pandemic: validation of the fear of COVID-19 scale in Polish

I Pilch, Z Kurasz, A Turska-Kawa - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
Background The Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S) is a brief self-report measure
developed at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. The scale evaluates the emotional …

The fear of COVID-19 scale: development and initial validation

DK Ahorsu, CY Lin, V Imani, M Saffari… - International journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Background The emergence of the COVID-19 and its consequences has led to fears,
worries, and anxiety among individuals worldwide. The present study developed the Fear of …

Validation of the fear of COVID-19 scale in a US college sample

CA Perz, BA Lang, R Harrington - … journal of mental health and addiction, 2020 - Springer
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted college students' coursework, stress levels, and
perceived health. Various estimates indicate that high proportions of college students have …

Psychometric properties of the Norwegian version of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale

MM Iversen, TM Norekvål, K Oterhals… - International journal of …, 2021 - Springer
To examine the psychometric properties of the Norwegian version of the Fear of COVID-19
Scale (FCV-19S), randomly selected individuals from a larger registry study were invited. We …