Fear of COVID-19 Scale: Psychometric Survey Instrument

A psychometric scale measuring fear related to the COVID-19 pandemic, authored by Daniel Kwasi Ahorsu. The dataset is hosted on the paperswithcode platform. Its specific size, structure, and temporal coverage are not detailed in the available metadata.

Use Cases

• Analyzing correlations between fear scores and demographic variables (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Benchmarking psychometric properties like reliability and validity (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Training models to predict mental health outcomes from survey responses (inferred from domain, verify after download)

Strengths

• Published on the paperswithcode platform, which aggregates research datasets.
• Authored by a named researcher, Daniel Kwasi Ahorsu.

Limitations

• Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Daniel Kwasi Ahorsu

Collection Method

Likely a designed survey instrument, but specific collection method is unknown.

Time Range

Likely related to the COVID-19 pandemic period, but exact temporal coverage is unknown.

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

Geographic coverage of the survey respondents is unknown.