Abstract

The goal was to develop and validate a measure for COVID-19 as traumatic stress. The scale consisted of three dimensions: “threat/fear of infection and death,” “economic hardship,” and “disturbed routines/isolation.” The measure was tested on a snowball sample of 1374 participants from seven countries online. Principal and confirmatory factor analysis conducted on separate subsamples randomly drawn from the sample proved its structural validity. Measures of PTSD, depression, anxiety, cumulative traumas, and well-being were used to test its convergent, divergent, and predictive validity. Results validated the reliability, the structural, convergent, divergent, and predictive validity of the scale and its subscales.

摘要

目的是开发和验证针对COVID-19的创伤性压力测量方法。该量表由三个维度组成：“威胁/对感染和死亡的恐惧”，“经济困难”和“受干扰的常规/隔离”。在线对来自七个国家的1374名参与者的雪球样本进行了测试。对从样本中随机抽取的各个子样本进行的主因子和验证性因子分析证明了其结构有效性。PTSD，抑郁症，焦虑症，累积性创伤和幸福感的测量指标用于测试其收敛性，发散性和预测性有效性。结果验证了量表及其子量表的可靠性，结构性，收敛性，分歧性和预测有效性。