Artículo
Development and Validation of the COVID-19 Worries and Fears Scale
Autor/es | Cuadrado, Esther
Arenas Moreno, Alicia Moyano Pacheco, Manuel La Gamma, Martina |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Psicología Social |
Fecha de publicación | 2023 |
Fecha de depósito | 2023-02-10 |
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Resumen | Objectives: How individuals perceive the risk of COVID-19 influences their mental health and protective behaviors. Therefore, the development of an instrument to capture COVID-19-related worries and fears is relevant. This ... Objectives: How individuals perceive the risk of COVID-19 influences their mental health and protective behaviors. Therefore, the development of an instrument to capture COVID-19-related worries and fears is relevant. This study aims to develop and validate the CoV-WoFe to measure COVID-19-related worries and fears. Methods: An online questionnaire was completed by 593 participants during Christmas 2020 and by 328 participants during Summer 2021, from which 88 participants formed a longitudinal sample. Results: Analyses confirmed a robust adjustment for consistency over time and a gender-invariant bifactorial structure. Factor 1 represented worry about the health consequences of COVID-19 and Factor 2 represented the perceived physiological symptoms associated with fear of COVID-19. Construct validity was evidenced by: the expected relations between the CoV-WoFe and other theoretically related constructs; the serial mediating role of both dimensions in the relationship that security values establish with protective behaviors against COVID-19 and with anxiety; and the expected gender differences in the Cov-WoFe. Conclusion: The CoV-WoFe represents a short, valid, reliable, gender-invariant tool that is easy to apply in both the health professional and research context to assessCOVID-19-related worries and fears, which are variables of relevance for spread of the virus and for mental health. |
Cita | Cuadrado, E., Arenas Moreno, A., Moyano Pacheco, M. y La Gamma, M. (2023). Development and Validation of the COVID-19 Worries and Fears Scale. International Journal of Public Health, 679, 1604600. https://doi.org/10.3389/ijph.2022.1604600. |
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