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Cross-cultural validation of the Worries about COVID-19 and its consequences Scale (W-COV) in adolescents and young people
The pandemic context presents remarkable psychological challenges for adolescents and young adults. The aim of the present work was to construct and study the psychometric properties of a scale in Spanish language (W-COV) to measure their worries related to the pandemic. Participants were 5559 peopl...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9278999/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36064240 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apnu.2022.07.016 |
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author | Mónaco, Estefanía Schoeps, Konstanze Valero-Moreno, Selene Castro-Calvo, Jesús Montoya-Castilla, Inmaculada del Rosario, Constanza Coello, Fernanda Herrera, Sebastián Trujillo, Ángela Munevar, Fernando Riveros Esparza, Nancy Alejandra Amador |
author_facet | Mónaco, Estefanía Schoeps, Konstanze Valero-Moreno, Selene Castro-Calvo, Jesús Montoya-Castilla, Inmaculada del Rosario, Constanza Coello, Fernanda Herrera, Sebastián Trujillo, Ángela Munevar, Fernando Riveros Esparza, Nancy Alejandra Amador |
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description | The pandemic context presents remarkable psychological challenges for adolescents and young adults. The aim of the present work was to construct and study the psychometric properties of a scale in Spanish language (W-COV) to measure their worries related to the pandemic. Participants were 5559 people aged between 14 and 25 years old (M = 19.05; SD = 3.28). Self-report data were collected using a cross-sectional and cross-cultural design. Participants were from 5 Spanish-speaking countries. Instruments were W-COV to assess worries about COVID-19 and its consequences; DASS-21 for anxiety, depression and stress; and SWLS for life satisfaction. Exploratory, confirmatory and multi-group factor analyses were conducted to determine the factorial structure of the W-COV and its measurement invariance (configural, metric, scalar and error variance). Correlational and regression analyses were also performed to study convergent and predictive validity. The results suggest that W-COV presents a bifactorial structure: (1) a general factor of worries about COVID-19; and (2) three different factors: worries about health, economic and psychosocial consequences from COVID-19. The internal reliability indices Cronbach's α and Omega were adequate. With respect to the invariance results, the instrument can be used interchangeably in the five countries considered, in both genders and in two different age groups (12–17 and 18–25). Regarding validity, W-COV factors were positively associated with anxiety, depression and stress, and negatively predicted life satisfaction. In conclusion, W-COV is a reliable and valid instrument for researchers and health care professionals to assess the psychological impact of the pandemic on mental health of young Ibero-Americans. |
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spelling | pubmed-92789992022-07-14 Cross-cultural validation of the Worries about COVID-19 and its consequences Scale (W-COV) in adolescents and young people Mónaco, Estefanía Schoeps, Konstanze Valero-Moreno, Selene Castro-Calvo, Jesús Montoya-Castilla, Inmaculada del Rosario, Constanza Coello, Fernanda Herrera, Sebastián Trujillo, Ángela Munevar, Fernando Riveros Esparza, Nancy Alejandra Amador Arch Psychiatr Nurs Article The pandemic context presents remarkable psychological challenges for adolescents and young adults. The aim of the present work was to construct and study the psychometric properties of a scale in Spanish language (W-COV) to measure their worries related to the pandemic. Participants were 5559 people aged between 14 and 25 years old (M = 19.05; SD = 3.28). Self-report data were collected using a cross-sectional and cross-cultural design. Participants were from 5 Spanish-speaking countries. Instruments were W-COV to assess worries about COVID-19 and its consequences; DASS-21 for anxiety, depression and stress; and SWLS for life satisfaction. Exploratory, confirmatory and multi-group factor analyses were conducted to determine the factorial structure of the W-COV and its measurement invariance (configural, metric, scalar and error variance). Correlational and regression analyses were also performed to study convergent and predictive validity. The results suggest that W-COV presents a bifactorial structure: (1) a general factor of worries about COVID-19; and (2) three different factors: worries about health, economic and psychosocial consequences from COVID-19. The internal reliability indices Cronbach's α and Omega were adequate. With respect to the invariance results, the instrument can be used interchangeably in the five countries considered, in both genders and in two different age groups (12–17 and 18–25). Regarding validity, W-COV factors were positively associated with anxiety, depression and stress, and negatively predicted life satisfaction. In conclusion, W-COV is a reliable and valid instrument for researchers and health care professionals to assess the psychological impact of the pandemic on mental health of young Ibero-Americans. Elsevier Inc. 2022-10 2022-07-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9278999/ /pubmed/36064240 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apnu.2022.07.016 Text en © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Mónaco, Estefanía Schoeps, Konstanze Valero-Moreno, Selene Castro-Calvo, Jesús Montoya-Castilla, Inmaculada del Rosario, Constanza Coello, Fernanda Herrera, Sebastián Trujillo, Ángela Munevar, Fernando Riveros Esparza, Nancy Alejandra Amador Cross-cultural validation of the Worries about COVID-19 and its consequences Scale (W-COV) in adolescents and young people |
title | Cross-cultural validation of the Worries about COVID-19 and its consequences Scale (W-COV) in adolescents and young people |
title_full | Cross-cultural validation of the Worries about COVID-19 and its consequences Scale (W-COV) in adolescents and young people |
title_fullStr | Cross-cultural validation of the Worries about COVID-19 and its consequences Scale (W-COV) in adolescents and young people |
title_full_unstemmed | Cross-cultural validation of the Worries about COVID-19 and its consequences Scale (W-COV) in adolescents and young people |
title_short | Cross-cultural validation of the Worries about COVID-19 and its consequences Scale (W-COV) in adolescents and young people |
title_sort | cross-cultural validation of the worries about covid-19 and its consequences scale (w-cov) in adolescents and young people |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9278999/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36064240 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apnu.2022.07.016 |
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