Social Psychological Measurements of COVID-19: Coronavirus Perceived Threat, Government Response, Impacts, and Experiences Questionnaires

By L. Conway, Shailee R. Woodard, Alivia Zubrod. 2020

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Major journals have sounded the call for social psychologists to do research on the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). Such research is only as good as the measurements used. Across three studies (total n = 984), we developed a battery of social psychology-relevant questionnaires to measure COVID-19 phenomena: (1) Perceived Coronavirus Threat Questionnaire, (2) Governmental Response to Coronavirus Questionnaire, (3) Coronavirus Impacts Questionnaire, and (4) Coronavirus Experience Questionnaire. Exploratory (Study 1) and Confirmatory (Studies 2 and 3) Factor Analyses revealed excellent factor structures for the one-factor Perceived Coronavirus Threat, the six-factor Governmental Response Questionnaires, and the three-factor Coronavirus Impacts Questionnaire. The three-factor Coronavirus Experience Questionnaire yielded poorer psychometric properties overall. Given that brevity is often desired for online studies, we further recommend psychometrically sound short versions of each questionnaire. Taken in total, this work offers social psychology researchers a battery of questionnaires to measure Coronavirus-related phenomena for the duration of the pandemic in U.S. participants.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Clinical Psychology

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In Social Psychology

1. Jeffrey S Ashby
2. Kenneth G. Rice
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In Sociology and Political Science

1. Jeffrey S Ashby
2. Kenneth G. Rice
3. I. Kira

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• Measuring COVID-19 as Traumatic Stress: Initial Psychometrics and Validation (2020, methodology): “Conway et al. (2020) used another measure of COVID-19 fears of COVID-19 and do not test for concurrent, divergent, or predictive validities.”