A study on validity and reliability of COVID-19 anxiety scale
Yıl: 2021 Cilt: 4 Sayı: 1 Sayfa Aralığı: 123 - 136 Metin Dili: İngilizce DOI: 10.33400/kuje.901178 İndeks Tarihi: 29-07-2022
A study on validity and reliability of COVID-19 anxiety scale
Öz: This study is aimed to develop the anxiety scale toward novel corona virus in Turkish public. The onlinequestionnaire surveyed 1075 individuals from the general population of 70 provinces of Turkey whocompleted the questionnaire via social networks from May 1 to June 15, 2020. Two different sampleswere used in this study. In first step, 415 data were collected in second step 649 data was obtained forconfirmatory factor analysis. A series of exploratory factor analyses were conducted on data obtainedfrom the first sample. As a result of the exploratory factor analysis, 9 items were removed from the scaleconsisting of 17 items. The final COVID-19 Anxiety Scale consisting of two factors, which are Overreactionand Overprotection- Hygiene, and eight items, have been found as capable to measure the anxietytowards COVID-19. The construct validity of the COVID-19 Anxiety Scale, revealed by exploratory factoranalysis, was tested with the confirmatory factor analysis applied to the second sample data. Accordingly,it has been revealed that the two-factor construct of the COVID-19 Anxiety Scale ensures a perfectlymodel-data fit. Another validity study is the determination of measurement invariance in gender groupsof the COVID-19 Anxiety Scale. The results show that metric invariance was provided. Thus, factorvariances and structural relationships between groups are comparable. The convergent validity of thescale was examined through item loadings, composite reliability, and average variance extracted values.All of them provide critical values for convergent validity. Since the correlation between the factors waslower than the average variance extracted by the factors, the discriminate validity of the scale was alsoprovided. The reliability of the scale was examined with Cronbach's alpha and composite reliability. Bothreliability coefficients show that the COVID-19 Anxiety Scale is reliable at a good level.
Anahtar Kelime: COVID-19 kaygı ölçeğinin geçerlik ve güvenirlik çalışması
Öz: Bu çalışmada, Türk halkının yeni koronavirüse yönelik kaygı düzeyini belirlemek amacıyla COVID-19 Kaygı Ölçeği geliştirme çalışması yapılmıştır. Çalışmanın verileri 1 Mayıs-15 Haziran 2020 tarihleri arasında sosyal ağlar aracılığı ile Türkiye'nin 70 ilinden iki aşamalı olarak toplam 1075 kişiden toplanmıştır. Açımlayıcı faktör analizi için 415 kişiden, doğrulayıcı faktör analizi için 649 kişiden veri toplanmıştır. İlk örneklemden elde edilen veriler üzerinde bir dizi açımlayıcı faktör analizi yapılmıştır. Açımlayıcı faktör analizleri sonucunda 17 maddeden oluşan ölçekten 9 madde çıkarılarak “aşırı-tepki” ve “aşırı koruma-hijyen” olmak üzere iki boyuttan ve sekiz maddeden oluşan bir yapı ortaya konmuştur. COVID-19 Kaygı Ölçeği’nin açımlayıcı faktör analizi ile ortaya konan yapısının uygunluğu ikinci örneklem verisine uygulanan doğrulayıcı faktör analizi ile test edilmiştir. Doğrulayıcı faktör analizi bulguları COVID-19 Kaygı Ölçeği’nin iki faktörlü yapısının model veri uyumunun mükemmel düzeyde sağlandığını göstermektedir. Bir diğer geçerlik kanıtı olarak COVID-19 Kaygı Ölçeği’nin cinsiyet gruplarında ölçme değişmezliği incelenmiş ve metrik değişmezlik sağlanmıştır. Buna göre faktör varyansları ve yapıları cinsiyet grupları arasında karşılaştırılabilmektedir. Ölçeğin yakınsak geçerliği faktör yükleri, birleşik güvenirlik ve çıkarılan ortalama varyans değerleri aracılığı ile incelenmiştir. Tüm değerler yakınsak geçerlik için belirlenen kritik değerleri sağlamaktadır. Faktörler arası korelasyon, faktörlerin açıkladığı ortalama varyanstan düşük olduğundan ölçeğin ayırt edici geçerliği de sağlanmıştır. Ölçeğin güvenirliği cronbach alfa ve birleşik güvenirlik ile incelenmiştir. Her iki güvenirlik katsayısı da COVID-19 kaygı Ölçeği’nin iyi düzeyde güvenilir olduğunu göstermektedir.
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