Psychometric properties of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale amongst black South African university students

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread widely leading to a global public health crisis of pandemic proportion. Whilst infection rates tend fluctuate in South Africa, COVID-19 remains life-threatening with the capacity wreak fear and concern. The present study evaluated psychometric qualities Fear Scale (FCV-19S) amongst black African university students ( N = 433; Female: 58%; Mage 23.51 [SD 4.18]). FCV-19S demonstrated unidimensional factor structure acceptable internal consistency (? 0.87), Omega (? 0.88) greatest lower bound (GLB 0.90) reliabilities. In addition, discriminant validity was when items loaded separately from ordinary fear. can be used as measure COVID-19-related students.