The Japanese version of the Fear of COVID-19 scale: Reliability, validity, and relation to coping behavior

Autor: Saeko Kamoshida, Mayumi Sakuraba, Kohei Koiwa, Koubun Wakashima, Keigo Asai, Daisuke Kobayashi
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
RNA viruses
Male
050103 clinical psychology
Viral Diseases
Coronaviruses
Emotions
Social Sciences
Anxiety
Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Conformity
Geographical Locations
0302 clinical medicine
Medical Conditions
Mathematical and Statistical Techniques
Japan
Surveys and Questionnaires
Adaptation
Psychological
Medicine and Health Sciences
Psychology
Young adult
Reliability (statistics)
media_common
Multidisciplinary
Depression
05 social sciences
Statistics
Fear
Middle Aged
Infectious Diseases
Medical Microbiology
Scale (social sciences)
Viral Pathogens
Viruses
Physical Sciences
Medicine
Female
medicine.symptom
Pathogens
Coronavirus Infections
Factor Analysis
Clinical psychology
Research Article
Adult
Asia
Psychometrics
Science
media_common.quotation_subject
Concurrent validity
Pneumonia
Viral
Social issues
Research and Analysis Methods
Microbiology
03 medical and health sciences
Betacoronavirus
Young Adult
Mental Health and Psychiatry
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Translations
Statistical Methods
Microbial Pathogens
Pandemics
Aged
Behavior
Mood Disorders
SARS-CoV-2
Organisms
Biology and Life Sciences
COVID-19
Reproducibility of Results
Covid 19
030227 psychiatry
People and Places
Mathematics
Zdroj: PLoS ONE
PLoS ONE, Vol 15, Iss 11, p e0241958 (2020)
ISSN: 1932-6203
Popis: COVID-19 is spreading worldwide, causing various social problems. The aim of the present study was to verify the reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S) and to ascertain FCV-19S effects on assessment of Japanese people's coping behavior. After back-translation of the scale, 450 Japanese participants were recruited from a crowdsourcing platform. These participants responded to the Japanese FCV-19S, the Japanese versions of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale (HADS) and the Japanese versions of the Perceived Vulnerability to Disease (PVD), which assesses coping behaviors such as stockpiling and health monitoring, reasons for coping behaviors, and socio-demographic variables. Results indicated the factor structure of the Japanese FCV-19S as including seven items and one factor that were equivalent to those of the original FCV-19S. The scale showed adequate internal reliability (α = .87; ω = .92) and concurrent validity, as indicated by significantly positive correlations with the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS; anxiety, r = .56; depression, r = .29) and Perceived Vulnerability to Disease (PVD; perceived infectability, r = .32; germ aversion, r = .29). Additionally, the FCV-19S not only directly increased all coping behaviors (β = .21 - .36); it also indirectly increased stockpiling through conformity reason (indirect effect, β = .04; total effect, β = .31). These results suggest that the Japanese FCV-19S psychometric scale has equal reliability and validity to those of the original FCV-19S. These findings will contribute further to the investigation of various difficulties arising from fear about COVID-19 in Japan.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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