COVID-19 fear among Pakistanis: psychometric evaluation of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale using item response theory and confirmatory factor analysis

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Ullah, I, Tahir, MJ, Ali, S, Waseem, R, Griffiths, MD ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8880-6524, Mamun, MA, Lin, C-Y and Pakpour, AH, 2023. COVID-19 fear among Pakistanis: psychometric evaluation of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale using item response theory and confirmatory factor analysis. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 21, pp. 1240-1255. ISSN 1557-1874

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-021-00656-2

Abstract

The Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S) assesses the fear of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and has been translated and validated into over 20 languages. The present study conducted confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and item response theory (IRT) analyses on the FCV-19S among a sample of 937 Pakistani adults (mean [SD] age of 25.83 [11.80] years; 537 [57.3%] females). The CFA and IRT confirmed the unidimensionality of the FCV-19S. The Likert-type scale used in the FCV-19S was supported by the proper threshold orderings. Additionally, no DIF contrast had an absolute value larger than 0.5 regarding the participants' characteristics of gender, age, living status, and education in the IRT findings. The FCV-19S was found to be valid and reliable with strong psychometric properties among the Pakistani adult population.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction
Creators:	Ullah, I., Tahir, M.J., Ali, S., Waseem, R., Griffiths, M.D., Mamun, M.A., Lin, C.-Y. and Pakpour, A.H.
Publisher:	Springer Verlag
Date:	April 2023
Volume:	21
ISSN:	1557-1874
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1007/s11469-021-00656-2 DOI 1499878 Other
Rights:	© The Author(s) 2021. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Laura Ward
Date Added:	30 Nov 2021 13:47
Last Modified:	04 Apr 2023 08:40
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/45011