1. Fear of COVID-19 scale: Validity, reliability and factorial invariance in Argentina’s general population
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Ignacio Barés, Mauricio Cervigni, Carmen Burgos Videla, Pablo Martino, Tomás Caycho-Rodríguez, Miguel Gallegos, Manuel Calandra, Nelson Portillo, and Lindsey W. Vilca
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050103 clinical psychology ,Scale (ratio) ,Population ,Argentina ,Sample (statistics) ,Structural equation modeling ,CIENCIAS SOCIALES ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,Goodness of fit ,Statistics ,Item response theory ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,medicine ,Humans ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,education ,purl.org/becyt/ford/5.1 [https] ,Reliability (statistics) ,Scale of Fear ,education.field_of_study ,purl.org/becyt/ford/5 [https] ,SARS-CoV-2 ,05 social sciences ,Reproducibility of Results ,Otras Psicología ,COVID-19 ,Fear ,anxiety ,Psicología ,030227 psychiatry ,Clinical Psychology ,depression ,Anxiety ,medicine.symptom ,Psychology - Abstract
This study evaluated the psychometric properties of the Scale of Fear of COVID-19 (FCV-19S) in a sample of 1,291 Argentines. The two-related factor structure of the FCV-19S had satisfactory goodness-of-fit indices using structural equation modeling and item response theory. Further results showed that the reliability was adequate, the factor structure was strictly invariable across age groups, and the model that evaluated the relationships between fear of COVID-19, anxiety, and depression had adequate goodness of fit indices as well. The results indicated that FCV-19S has strong psychometric properties to measure fear of COVID-19 in the general population of Argentina. Fil: Caycho Rodríguez, Tomás. Universidad Privada del Norte; Perú Fil: Vilca, Lindsey W.. Universidad Peruana Unión; Perú Fil: Cervigni, Mauricio Alejandro. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Rosario. Instituto Rosario de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Educación. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Instituto Rosario de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina Fil: Gallegos de San Vicente, Miguel Omar. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Rosario. Instituto Rosario de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Educación. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Instituto Rosario de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina Fil: Martino, Pablo. Universidad Nacional de Rosario; Argentina Fil: Portillo, Nelson. Boston College; Estados Unidos Fil: Barés, Ignacio. Universidad Nacional de Rosario; Argentina Fil: Calandra, Manuel Santiago. Universidad Nacional de Rosario; Argentina Fil: Burgos Videla, Carmen. Universidad de Atacama.; Chile
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- 2020
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