Validation and psychometric evaluation of the Italian version of the Fear of COVID-19 scale (2020)

The advent of COVID-19 worldwide has led to consequences for people's health, both physical and psychological, such as fear and anxiety. This is the case in Italy, one of the countries most affected by the pandemic. Given the heightened fear concerning COVID-19 in Italy., the study proposed and validated the Italian version of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S; see Ahorsu, D. K., Lin, C. Y., Imani, V., Saffari, M., Griffiths, M. D., &amp; Pakpour, A. H. (2020). The Fear of COVID-19 Scale: Development and Initial Validation. International journal of mental health and addiction, 1–9. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-020-00270-8) and analyzed its psychometric properties. The sample comprised around 250 Italian participants who were administered Italian versions of the FCV-19S, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), and the Severity Measure for Specific Phobia-Adult (SMSP-A). The dataset contains, in addition to socio-demographic information, the values collected in the sample on the seven items of the FCV-19S, translated into Italian.<br>

新冠疫情（COVID-19）在全球范围内的暴发，对民众的身心健康均造成了诸多不良影响，诸如恐惧与焦虑情绪。作为受疫情冲击最严重的国家之一，意大利的情况亦是如此。鉴于意大利境内民众对新冠疫情的恐惧情绪愈发高涨，本研究提出并验证了新冠恐惧量表（Fear of COVID-19 Scale, FCV-19S）的意大利语版本（详见Ahorsu, D. K., Lin, C. Y., Imani, V., Saffari, M., Griffiths, M. D., & Pakpour, A. H. (2020). The Fear of COVID-19 Scale: Development and Initial Validation. International journal of mental health and addiction, 1–9. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-020-00270-8），并对其心理测量学特性展开了分析。
本研究的样本约包含250名意大利籍参与者，研究人员向其施测了意大利语版FCV-19S、医院焦虑抑郁量表（Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, HADS）以及成人特定恐惧症严重程度量表（Severity Measure for Specific Phobia-Adult, SMSP-A）。
本数据集除收录社会人口学相关信息外，还包含了样本在意大利语版FCV-19S的7个条目上的得分数据。