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Psychometric Evaluation of the Arabic Version of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale
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Fear is a central emotional response to imminent threats such as the coronavirus-19 disease (COVID-19). The Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S) assesses the severity of fear towards COVID-19. The present study examined the psychometric properties of the Arabic version of the FCV-19S. Using a forward-backward translation, the FCV-19S was translated into Arabic. An online survey using the Arabic versions of FCV-19S and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) was administered. Reliability and concurrent and confirmatory validity were examined. The dataset consisted of 693 Saudi participants. The internal consistency of the Arabic FCV-19S was satisfactory (α = .88), with sound concurrent validity indicated by significant and positive correlations with HADS (r = .66). The unidimensional structure of the FCV-19S was confirmed. The Arabic version of the FCV-19S is psychometrically robust and can be used in research assessing the psychological impact of COVID-19 among a Saudi adult population.
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“The scale has already been used in a number of studies and has been translated into several languages, showing good psychometric properties and Cronbach’s α values from 0.82 to 0.89 (Alyami et al., 2020; Bitan et al., 2020; Sakib et al., 2020; Satici et al., 2020; Soraci et al., 2020; Winter et al., 2020).”
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“This scale has been used in a wide range of countries, such as Iran (Alyami et al., 2020), Bangladesh (Sakib et al., 2020), Italy (Soraci et al., 2020), Turkey (Satici et al., 2020), Russia and Belarus (Reznik et al., 2020), Israel (Tzur Bitan et al., 2020), Peru (Huarcaya-Victoria et al., 2020), and Paraguay (Barrios et al., 2020).”
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“Most of these studies also detected a link between fear of COVID-19 and anxiety (Mertens et al., 2020) and, to a lesser extent, depression, using both the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS; Ahorsu et al., 2020; Alyami et al., 2020) and the Depression and Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-21).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Alyami, M., Henning, M., Krägeloh, C. U., & Alyami, H.
- Affiliations
- University of Auckland (NZ)
- Auckland University of Technology (NZ)
- Taif University (SA)
- Corresponding author
- Alyami, Mohsen
- Venue
- International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction
- Published
- 2020-05-16
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 2219-2232
- ISSN
- 1557-1874 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-1882
- PMC
- PMC7229877
- OpenAlex
- W3025028506
- Cited by
- 313
- References
- 57
- Citations by year
- 2025: 9 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 44 · 2022: 86 · 2021: 121 · 2020: 40
- FWCI
- 29.07
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- ResearchSpace (University of Auckland) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
- Keywords
- Fear of COVID-19 Scale, fear of COVID-19, Arabic translation, psychometric validation, cross-cultural adaptation, anxiety, depression, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, Saudi adults, psychological impact of COVID-19
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