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The Coronavirus Anxiety Scale: Cross-national measurement invariance and convergent validity evidence


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Jovanović, Veljko and Rudnev, Maksim and Krauss, Steven Eric (2024) The Coronavirus Anxiety Scale: Cross-national measurement invariance and convergent validity evidence. Psychological assessment, 36 (1). pp. 14-29. ISSN 1040-3590; ESSN: 1939-134X

Abstract

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.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Institute for Social Science Studies
DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0001270
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Keywords: Anxiety; COVID-19; Fear; Humans; Psychometrics; Reproducibility of results; Coronavirus disease 2019; Procedures; Psychometry; Reproducibility; Coronavirus Anxiety Scale; Pandemic; Virus; Measurement invariance; Confirmatory factor analysis
Depositing User: Mr. Mohamad Syahrul Nizam Md Ishak
Date Deposited: 27 Mar 2024 01:12
Last Modified: 27 Mar 2024 01:12
Altmetrics: http://www.altmetric.com/details.php?domain=psasir.upm.edu.my&doi=10.1037/pas0001270
URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/105866
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