TY  - JOUR
TI  - A study on validity and reliability of COVID-19 anxiety scale
AB  - 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.
AU  - SIRGANCI, GOZDE
AU  - Ceyhan, Onurcan
AU  - Kilic, Hare
DO  - 10.33400/kuje.901178
PY  - 2021
JO  - Kocaeli Üniversitesi Eğitim Dergisi (Online)
VL  - 4
IS  - 1
SN  - 2636-8846
SP  - 123
EP  - 136
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/432417
ER  -