Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been a source of fear around the world. We asked whether the measurement of this fear is trustworthy and comparable across countries. In particular, we explored the measurement invariance and cross-cultural replicability of the widely used Fear of COVID-19 scale (FCV-19S), testing community samples from 48 countries (N = 14,558). The findings indicate that the FCV-19S has a somewhat problematic structure, yet the one-factor solution is replicable across cultural contexts and could be used in studies that compare people who vary on gender and educational level. The validity of the scale is supported by a consistent pattern of positive correlations with perceived stress and general anxiety. However, given the unclear structure of the FCV-19S, we recommend using latent factor scores, instead of raw scores, especially in cross-cultural comparisons. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology Reichman University

Centre for Interdisciplinary Science and Society Studies Universidad de Ciencias y Humanidades

Centro de Investigacao e Intervencao Social Instituto Universitario de Lisboa

Clinique Biasa

Department of Clinical Developmental and Educational Psychology University of Warmia and Mazury

Department of Clinical Psychology United Arab Emirates University

Department of Cognitive Science and Psychology New Bulgarian University

Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology De La Salle University

Department of General Psychology University of Padova

Department of Management and International Business Auckland Business School University of Auckland

Department of Neuroscience Psychology and Behaviour University of Leicester

Department of Personality Psychology Yerevan State University

Department of Psychiatry College of Medicine University of Lagos

Department of Psychology and Psychodynamics Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences

Department of Psychology Federal University of Paraiba

Department of Psychology HoChiMinh City University of Education

Department of Psychology HSE University

Department of Psychology Karnatak University

Department of Psychology School of Social Science Leeds Beckett University

Department of Psychology Seton Hall University

Department of Psychology Soran University

Department of Psychology Thammasat University

Department of Psychology Universidad Catolica del Norte

Department of Psychology Universitas Airlangga

Department of Psychology University of Chittagong

Department of Psychology University of Colorado

Department of Psychology University of Milano Bicocca

Department of Psychology University of Novi Sad

Department of Psychology University of Sargodha

Department of Public Health University of Ljubljana

Department of Research Methods in Behavioral Sciences University of Granada

Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences Leeds Trinity University

Department of Sociology and Social Work Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Department of Sociology and Social Work University of Oradea

Escuela de Psicologia Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador Ambato

Faculty of Business and Administration International University of Sarajevo

Faculty of Medicine Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek

Faculty of Psychology Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Human Flourishing Program Harvard University

Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences Daugavpils University

Institute of Intercultural Psychology and Education ELTE Eotvos Lorand University

Institute of Political Science Universidad de la Republica

Institute of Psychology Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Institute of Psychology Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw

Institute of Psychology University of Gdansk

Management School Universidad de los Andes

NUCB Business School

Research Institute for Child Psychology and Pathopsychology

Sakarya Business School Sakarya University

School of Liberal Arts M Narikbayev KAZGUU University

School of Natural Sciences and Health Tallinn University

School of Psychology University of Southampton

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