Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/29278
Title: | The Coronavirus Anxiety Scale: Cross-national measurement invariance and convergent validity evidence. |
Authors: | 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, M-T 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, Y-H 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 |
Keywords: | alignment;coronavirus anxiety;culture;measurement invariance;validity |
Issue Date: | 27-Nov-2023 |
Publisher: | American Psychological Association |
Citation: | Jovanović, V. et al. (2024) 'The Coronavirus Anxiety Scale: Cross-national measurement invariance and convergent validity evidence.', Psychological Assessment, 36 (1), pp. 14 - 29. doi: 10.1037/pas0001270. |
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. |
URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/29278 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0001270 |
ISSN: | 1040-3590 |
Other Identifiers: | ORCiD: Veljko Jovanovi´c https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9248-2518 ORCiD: Maksim Rudnev https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2714-3840 ORCiD: Nelli Ferenczi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3757-6244 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Life Sciences Research Papers |
Files in This Item:
File | Description | Size | Format | |
---|---|---|---|---|
FullText.pdf | Copyright © American Psychological Association, 2023. This paper is not the copy of record and may not exactly replicate the authoritative document published in the APA journal. Please do not copy or cite without author's permission. The final article is available, upon publication, at: https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0001270 (see: https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/resources/internet-posting-guidelines). | 342.81 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
SupMat.pdf | Copyright © American Psychological Association, 2023. This paper is not the copy of record and may not exactly replicate the authoritative document published in the APA journal. Please do not copy or cite without author's permission. The final article is available, upon publication, at: https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0001270 (see: https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/resources/internet-posting-guidelines). | 1.65 MB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
Items in BURA are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.