Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S)
Psychology: Mental HealthReliability: alpha 0.823 sample items
About this scale
A 7-item measure of fear of COVID-19, validated in cross-cultural samples and used widely in pandemic-era OB research.
Sample item(s)
“I am most afraid of coronavirus-19”
“It makes me uncomfortable to think about coronavirus-19”
“I cannot sleep because I'm worrying about getting coronavirus-19”
Reliability
Reported internal consistency: alpha 0.82. As a rule of thumb, Cronbach’s α ≥ .70 is considered acceptable, ≥ .80 good, and ≥ .90 excellent for established measures.
Notes
Most cited COVID-fear scale.
Source & citation
Ahorsu, D. K., Lin, C.-Y., Imani, V., Saffari, M., Griffiths, M. D., & Pakpour, A. H. (2022): The Fear of COVID-19 Scale: Development and initial validation. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 1537–1545.
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