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Jovanović V, Rudnev M, Abdelrahman M, Abdul Kadir NB, Adebayo DF, Akaliyski P, Alaseel R, Alkamali YA, Alonso Palacio LM, Amin A, Andres A, Ansari-Moghaddam A, Aruta JJB, Avanesyan HM, Ayub N, Bacikova-Sleskova M, Baikanova R, Bakkar B, Bartoluci S, Benitez D, Bodnar I, Bolatov A, Borchet J, Bosnar K, Broche-Pérez Y, Buzea C, Cassibba R, Del Pilar Grazioso M, Dhakal S, Dimitrova R, Dominguez A, Duong CD, Dutra Thome L, Estavela AJ, Fayankinnu EA, Ferenczi N, Fernández-Morales R, Friehs MT, Gaete J, Gharz Edine W, Gindi S, Giordani RCF, Gjoneska B, Godoy JC, Hancheva CD, Hapunda G, Hihara S, Islam MS, Janovská A, Javakhishvili N, Kabir RS, Kabunga A, Karakulak A, Karl JA, Katović D, Kauyzbay Z, Kaźmierczak M, Khanna R, Khosla M, Kisaakye P, Klicperova-Baker M, Kokera R, Kozina A, Krauss SE, Landabur R, Lefringhausen K, Lewandowska-Walter A, Liang YH, Lizarzaburu-Aguinaga D, López Steinmetz LC, Makashvili A, Malik S, Manrique-Millones D, Martín-Carbonell M, Mattar Yunes MA, McGrath B, Mechili EA, Mejía Alvarez M, Mhizha S, Michałek-Kwiecień J, Mishra SK, Mohammadi M, Mohsen F, Moreta-Herrera R, Muradyan MD, Musso P, Naterer A, Nemat A, Neto F, Neto J, Okati-Aliabad H, Orellana CI, Orellana L, Park J, Pavlova I, Peralta EA, Petrytsa P, Pilkauskaite Valickiene R, Et Al. The Coronavirus Anxiety Scale: Cross-national measurement invariance and convergent validity evidence. Psychol Assess 2024; 36:14-29. [PMID: 38010780 DOI: 10.1037/pas0001270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2023]
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. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
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Affiliation(s)
- Veljko Jovanović
- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad
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- School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
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- School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
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- Department of Physical Education, Lviv Polytechnic National University
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- Faculty of Psychology and Education, Universiti Malaysia Sabah
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- Department of Educational Psychology and Health Psychology, Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice
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- Department of Clinical Psychology, Albizu University
| | - Ivanna Bodnar
- Department of Theory and Methods of Physical Culture, Lviv State University of Physical Culture
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- Department of Social Sciences and Communication, Transilvania University of Brasov
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- Departamento de Pos-Graduacao, Instituto Superior de Ciencias de Saude, Universidade Lurio
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- Department of Life Sciences, College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Brunel University London
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- Faculty of Education, Universidad de los Andes
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Psicologicas, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnicas
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- Department of General, Experimental, Developmental, and Health Psychology, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"
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- Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University
| | - Md Saiful Islam
- Department of Public Health and Informatics, Jahangirnagar University
| | - Anna Janovská
- Department of Educational Psychology and Health Psychology, Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice
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- School of Human Ecology, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
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- Department of Applied Psychology, University of Zimbabwe
| | - Ana Kozina
- Evaluation Studies Centre, Educational Research Institute
| | - Steven E Krauss
- Institute for Social Science Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Psicologicas, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnicas
| | - Ana Makashvili
- Dimitri Uznadze Institute of Psychology, Ilia State University
| | - Sadia Malik
- Department of Psychology, University of Sargodha
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- Department of Academic Affairs, Chicago School of Professional Psychology
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- Department of Applied Psychology, University of Zimbabwe
| | | | - Sushanta Kumar Mishra
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Area, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
| | - Mahdi Mohammadi
- Health Promotion Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari
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- Microbiology Department, Kabul University of Medical Sciences
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- Department of Psychology, University of Porto
| | - Joana Neto
- Research on Economics, Management and Information Technologies, Universidade Portucalense
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- Department of Management, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business
| | - Iuliia Pavlova
- Department of Theory and Methods of Physical Culture, Lviv State University of Physical Culture
| | | | - Petro Petrytsa
- Department of Physical Education and Rehabilitation, Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University
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