Acute stress and fear scales during the COVID-19 pandemic: development and evaluation in a Costa Rican sample

 

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Autoři: Jurado Solórzano, Ana María, Rodríguez Arauz, Gloriana, Smith Castro, Vanessa, Rosabal Coto, Mariano, Saborío Rodríguez, Sebastián, Raventós Vorst, Henriette, Reyes Fernández, Benjamín
Médium: artículo original
Datum vydání:2023
Popis:Objective: In the context of the pandemic due to SARS-CoV-2, concerns were raised about how to adequately assess its impact on the wellbeing of the population. The main reason of this paper is to present the preliminary results of psychometric properties of measures created to evaluate such impact. Method: We created and adapted several assessment instruments, and validated them with a volunteer sample of 699 adults (+18), inhabitants of Costa Rica, who filled out an online questionnaire on mental health consequences of the pandemic during September 2020. Results: The results provided evidence of validity and reliability for the new scales developed. Also, they show a negative correlation between resilient coping and acute stress, which could be considered evidence of discriminant validity. Conclusion: In this order, the measures showed acceptable psychometric properties with the evaluated sample. Future research is needed to gather more evidence of reliability and validity in probabilistic samples.
Země:Kérwá
Instituce:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Kérwá
Jazyk:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:kerwa.ucr.ac.cr:10669/90744
On-line přístup:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/psm/article/view/54933
https://hdl.handle.net/10669/90744
https://doi.org/10.15517/psm.v21i2.54933
Klíčové slovo:Acute stress
psychological assessment
COVID-19
Reliability
Validity
Estrés agudo
Evaluación psicológica
validez
confiabilidad