Over the century, the world has witnessed a number of pandemics—such as plague, Spanish flu, smallpox, and tuberculosis. Such pandemics have not only resulted in a great loss to human lives but have also affected the economy of many countries. COVID-19, declared as global pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), is the latest in this series which has hit the world since the last quarter of 2019. Although a number of scales exist to assess fear and distress of individuals related to COVID-19, it is well articulated in the extant literature that sometimes the proposed scales are context specific and lack applicability in multi-cultural environment as also the factors’ structure of the scale are fit from the context of audience from certain geographical regions. Thus, a need was felt to evaluate the FCV-19S and propose and statistically validate a new COVID-19-based scale called Phobic COVID-19 Disorder scale (Phobic-19 scale). A structured e-questionnaire in English was used to collect the data from the respondents. A 12-item, three-dimensional (fear, anxiety, and distress) scale was developed to capture the emotions of general populations towards COVID-19. The study analyzes the dimensionality and item structure of the scale through exploratory factor analysis and further validated with the help of confirmatory factor analysis. The results show that the Phobic-19 scale has a strong internal consistency along with better psychometric characteristics. Mass replication and a large number of empirical research using the Phobic-19 scale would instill confidence amongst scholars and practitioners in the results. The findings also highlight that the results would help to advance our understanding by providing critical information related to COVID-19 and ensure that the scale provides accurate and usable data.

一个世纪以来，世界见证了许多流行病，例如鼠疫、西班牙流感、天花和肺结核。这种流行病不仅给人类生命造成了巨大损失，而且还影响了许多国家的经济。COVID-19 被世界卫生组织 (WHO) 宣布为全球大流行病，是自 2019 年最后一个季度以来袭击世界的该系列中最新的一次。尽管存在许多量表来评估与相关个人的恐惧和痛苦COVID-19，在现有文献中得到了很好的阐述，有时提出的量表是特定于上下文的，缺乏在多元文化环境中的适用性，因为量表的因素结构也适合某些地理区域的受众背景。因此，认为有必要评估 FCV-19S 并提出并在统计上验证一种新的基于 COVID-19 的量表，称为恐惧症 COVID-19 障碍量表（恐惧症 19 量表）。使用结构化的英文电子问卷从受访者那里收集数据。开发了一个包含 12 个项目的三维（恐惧、焦虑和痛苦）量表，以捕捉普通人群对 COVID-19 的情绪。本研究通过探索性因素分析分析量表的维度和项目结构，并在验证性因素分析的帮助下进一步验证。结果表明，Phobic-19 量表具有很强的内部一致性以及更好的心理测量特征。大规模复制和大量使用 Phobic-19 量表的实证研究将使学者和从业者对结果充满信心。