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cord-349755-81ijzz3a	Perz, Catherine A.	Validation of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale in a US College Sample	2020-06-25		.txt	text/plain	3026	168	55	The Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S) (Ahorsu et al., International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 2020) is a seven-item scale which has been validated and shown to possess good psychometric qualities in studies of participants from multiple countries. The current study used a cross-sectional convenience sample of US college student participants (n = 237) and found that the FCV-19S has high reliability and validity as demonstrated by its internal consistency and strong one-factor solution. Additionally, the FCV-19S was only moderately correlated with the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 Scale (GAD-7), suggesting that the FCV-19S may bring added utility to research and clinical practice with populations impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Given that the present study was to our knowledge the first to use the Englishlanguage version of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale in a sample of US college students, we conducted an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) of the scale using SPSS Version 26.	./cache/cord-349755-81ijzz3a.txt	./txt/cord-349755-81ijzz3a.txt