TY - JOUR
AU - Jovanović, Veljko
AU - Rudnev, Maksim
AU - Abdelrahman, Mohamed
AU - Kadir, Nor Ba’yah Abdul
AU - Adebayo, Damilola Fisayo
AU - Akaliyski, Plamen
AU - Alaseel, Rana
AU - Alkamali, Yousuf Abdulqader
AU - Palacio, Luz Marina Alonso
AU - Amin, Azzam
AU - Andres, Andrii
AU - Ansari-Moghaddam, Alireza
AU - Aruta, John Jamir Benzon
AU - Avanesyan, Hrant M.
AU - Ayub, Norzihan
AU - Bacikova-Sleskova, Maria
AU - Baikanova, Raushan
AU - Bakkar, Batoul
AU - Bartoluci, Sunčica
AU - Benitez, David
AU - Bodnar, Ivanna
AU - Bolatov, Aidos
AU - Borchet, Judyta
AU - Bosnar, Ksenija
AU - Broche-Pérez, Yunier
AU - Buzea, Carmen
AU - Cassibba, Rosalinda
AU - del Pilar Grazioso, Maria
AU - Dhakal, Sandesh
AU - Dimitrova, Radosveta
AU - Dominguez, Alejandra
AU - Duong, Cong Doanh
AU - Thome, Luciana Dutra
AU - Estavela, Arune Joao
AU - Fayankinnu, Emmanuel Abiodun
AU - Ferenczi, Nelli
AU - Fernández-Morales, Regina
AU - Friehs, Maria-Therese
AU - Gaete, Jorge
AU - Edine, Wassim Gharz
AU - Gindi, Shahar
AU - Formighieri Giordani, Rubia Carla
AU - Gjoneska, Biljana
AU - Godoy, Juan Carlos
AU - Doncheva Hancheva, Camellia
AU - Hapunda, Given
AU - Hihara, Shogo
AU - Islam, Md. Saiful
AU - Janovská, Anna
AU - Javakhishvili, Nino
AU - Kabir, Russell Sarwar
AU - Kabunga, Amir
AU - Karakulak, Arzu
AU - Karl, Johannes Alfons
AU - Katović, Darko
AU - Kauyzbay, Zhumaly
AU - Kaźmierczak, Maria
AU - Khanna, Richa
AU - Khosla, Meetu
AU - Kisaakye, Peter
AU - Klicperova-Baker, Martina
AU - Kokera, Richman
AU - Kozina, Ana
AU - Krauss, Steven E.
AU - Landabur, Rodrigo
AU - Lefringhausen, Katharina
AU - Lewandowska-Walter, Aleksandra
AU - Liang, Yun-Hsia
AU - Lizarzaburu-Aguinaga, Danny
AU - López Steinmetz, Lorena Cecilia
AU - Makashvili, Ana
AU - Malik, Sadia
AU - Manrique-Millones, Denisse
AU - Martín-Carbonell, Marta
AU - Mattar Yunes, Maria Angela
AU - McGrath, Breeda
AU - Mechili, Enkeleint A.
AU - Alvarez, Marinés Mejía
AU - Mhizha, Samson
AU - Michałek-Kwiecień, Justyna
AU - Mishra, Sushanta Kumar
AU - Mohammadi, Mahdi
AU - Mohsen, Fatema
AU - Moreta-Herrera, Rodrigo
AU - Muradyan, Maria D.
AU - Musso, Pasquale
AU - Naterer, Andrej
AU - Nemat, Arash
AU - Neto, Felix
AU - Neto, Joana
AU - Okati-Aliabad, Hassan
AU - Orellana, Carlos Iván
AU - Orellana, Ligia
AU - Park, Joonha
AU - Pavlova, Iuliia
AU - Peralta, Eddy Alfonso
AU - Petrytsa, Petro
AU - Pilkauskaite Valickiene, Rasa
AU - Pišot, Saša
AU - Poláčková Šolcová, Iva
AU - Prot, Franjo
AU - Ristevska Dimitrovska, Gordana
AU - Rivera, Rita M.
AU - Riyanti, Benedicta Prihatin Dwi
AU - Saiful, Mohd Saiful Husain
AU - Samekin, Adil
AU - Seisembekov, Telman
AU - Serapinas, Danielius
AU - Sharafi, Zahra
AU - Sharma, Prerna
AU - Shukla, Shanu
AU - Silletti, Fabiola
AU - Skrzypińska, Katarzyna
AU - Smith-Castro, Vanessa
AU - Solomontos-Kountouri, Olga
AU - Stanciu, Adrian
AU - Ştefenel, Delia
AU - Stogianni, Maria
AU - Stuart, Jaimee
AU - Sudarnoto, Laura Francisca
AU - Sultana, Mst Sadia
AU - Sulejmanović, Dijana
AU - Suryani, Angela Oktavia
AU - Tair, Ergyul
AU - Tavitian-Elmadjian, Lucy
AU - Uka, Fitim
AU - Welter Wendt, Guilherme
AU - Yang, Pei-Jung
AU - Yıldırım, Ebrar
AU - Yu, Yue
PY - 2023
DA - November
TI - The Coronavirus Anxiety Scale: Cross-National Measurement Invariance and Convergent Validity Evidence
JO - Psychological Assessment
EP - 29
VL - 36
IS - 1
DO - https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0001270
AB - Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (CAS) is a widely used measure that captures somatic symptoms of coronavirus-related anxiety. In a large-scale collaboration spanning 60 countries (Ntotal= 21,513), we examined the CAS’s measurement invariance and assessed the convergent validity of CAS scores in relation to the fear of COVID-19 (FCV-19S) and the satisfaction with life (SWLS-3) scales. We utilized both conventional exact invariance tests and alignment procedures, with results revealing that the single-factor model fit the data well in almost all countries. Partial scalar invariance was supported in a subset of 56 countries. To ensure the robustness of results, given the unbalanced samples, we employed resampling techniques both with and without replacement and found the results were more stable in larger samples. The alignment procedure demonstrated a high degree of measurement invariance with 9% of the parameters exhibiting noninvariance. We also conducted simulations of alignment using the parameters estimated in the current model. Findings demonstrated reliability of the means but indicated challenges in estimating the latent variances. Strong positive correlations between CAS and FCV-19S estimated with all three different approaches were found in most countries. Correlations of CAS and SWLS-3 were weak and negative, but significantly differed from zero in several countries. Overall, the study provided support for the measurement invariance of the CAS and offered evidence of its convergent validity while also highlighting issues with variance estimation.
PB - American Psychological Association
UR - https://researchportal.hw.ac.uk/en/publications/b2f448bd-c693-4963-8a67-fba587ef6ccd
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
KW - Mental health and wellbeing
ER