Adaptation and validation of the fear of COVID-19 scale for face-to-face learning

• Autor(a) principal: Gonçalves,Maria dos Prazeres
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Fernandes,Josefa, Pessoto,Aline, Gomes,Gabriela, Carvalho,Karina, Severino,Lívia, Pina-Zallio,Marineide, Romero,Pauline, Verza,Rúbia, Leite,Manuela
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1645-00862021000300828
• topic: COVID-19; FCV-19S; Face-to-Face Learning; University; Fear of COVID-19

Abstract COVID-19 has had a great impact on higher education due to the fear of contagion. This study aims to present an adapted version of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S) designed by Ahorsu et al. (2020) to the context of face-to-face learning: Fear of COVID-19 Scale for Face-to-Face Learning (FCV-19S-FL). The FCV-19S was translated into European Portuguese and adapted to the context of face-to-face learning, resulting in a 9-item scale. The sample consists of 534 university students. An explanatory factor analysis and a reliability analysis were used to determine the psychometric properties of the scale. The FCV-19S-FL has demonstrated good reliability (α= 0.904) as well as good internal consistency of both factors (Factor 1 α = 0.878; Factor 2 α = 0.842). The FCV-19S-FL has a two-dimensional structure with robust psychometric properties and has proved to be reliable and valid for the assessment of fear of COVID-19 in the specific context of face-to-face learning.