Preliminary Survey of Factor Structure of Persian Version of Covid-19 Stress Scale Among Students

Subject Areas : روان‌شناسی تحولی

Sedigheh Heydari ¹ , Majid Barzegar ² , Mehrnaz Azadyekta, ³

1 - PhD Candidate in Assessment & Measurement Islamic Azad University of Saveh
2 - Islamic Azad University of Marvdasht
3 - Islamic Azad University of Islamshahr

Received: 2022-01-05 Accepted : 2022-01-05 Published : 2021-09-23

Keywords: Students, factor structure, Stress, COVID-19,

Abstract :

This study aimed to a preliminary survey of the factor structure of the Persian version of the Covid-19 Stress Scale among students. The research method was descriptive and cross-sectional and the participants comprised 540 students of the Islamic Azad University of the electronic unit in the second semester of the academic year of 2019-2020 selected by convenience sampling using the Covid-19 Stress Scale (Taylor et al, 2020). Considering the influence of Iranian culture, two items (item number 15 and 24) were removed and results showed that this scale included 5 factors fear of danger, contamination, fear of socio-economic consequences, xenophobia, compulsive checking, reassurance, and traumatic stress symptoms in the case of COVID-19, covered the fit factors of this 5-factor model at the desired level. These findings indicated that, the factor structure of the Persian version of the Covid-19 Scale is a valid tool to measure Covid-19 stress in people with university education.

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