Emotional fear of COVID-19, but not physiological expressions of fear, explains variability in COVID-19's impact on individuals' lives.

Bryant M Stone, Vanessa Wang

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A mediation model explaining the impact of fear of COVID-19 and COVID-19- induced changes in multiple life domains on adolescents' subjective well-being in sub-Saharan Africa.PloS one · 2025
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Bryant M StoneCollege of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, 67 President Street, Charleston, SC 29425, USA.

Vanessa WangSchool of Psychological & Behavioral Sciences, Department of Psychology, Southern Illinois University, 1125 Lincoln Drive, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA.

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound and robust impact on individuals' lives and has particularly negatively affected individuals' experiences with fear of catching COVID-19. To measure this fear, researchers created the unidimensional Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S). However, some exploratory factor analysis studies suggested the presence of two factors, which are 1) emotional fear and 2) physiological expressions of fear. In the current exploratory study, we aimed to confirm this factor structure using confirmatory factor analysis and to examine how these two new factors of the FCV-19S explain variability in the impacts of COVID-19 on nine life domains (i.e., finances, loved ones, job, safety, school, mental health, physical health, social activities, and quality of life). Participants were undergraduate students (

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CFA, confirmatory factor analysisCFI, Comparative Fit IndexCIDS, Coronavirus Impact Domains ScaleCOVID-19COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019COVID-19 impactEFA, exploratory factor analysisFactor analysisFCV-19SFCV-19S, Fear of COVID-19 ScaleFear of COVID-19Fear of COVID-19 ScaleM, MeanRMSEA, Root Mean Square Error of ApproximationSD, standard deviationSE, standard errorSRMR, Standardized Root Mean Squared Residual

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PMID36624855

DOI10.1016/j.jadr.2023.100479

PMCPMC9814283

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