WITHDRAWN: Development of the “COVID-19 Psychological Destruction Scale”: A Validity and Reliability Study

Abstract

This research is a scale development study to determine the level of destruction that COVID-19 has created on the psychology of individuals in the 18-50 age group. Data were collected by convenience sampling method, which allowed us to reach total 1604 participants, aged between 18 and 50 years, from 7 regions in Turkey. At the end of exploratory factor analysis performed on a 60-item pilot form, a two-factor structure was obtained explaining 61.74% of the total variance. The “Collapse” dimension has 14 items and the “Fear” dimension has 4 items. Load values of the items in the “Collapse” dimension are between 0.700 - 0.855 and the load values of items in the "Fear" dimension are between 0.736 - 0.797. While the reliability analysis showed a Cronbach's Alpha value of 0.951 for the whole scale, the Cronbach's Alpha values for the dimensions were 0.937 and 0.791, respectively. A survey was implemented with 597 new participants for convergent and discriminant validity, and the Pearson Moments Product Correlation coefficient between the developed “COVID-19 Psychological Destruction Scale” and “Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS)” was found to be 0.748. A confirmatory factor analysis was performed on the new data set with 597 participants and the goodness of fit index values obtained showed that the model perfectly fit. The result of the research reveals that the “COVID-19 Psychological Destruction Scale” is a valid and reliable scale that can be applied to individuals aged 18-50.

COVID-19 related mental health issues: a narrative review of psychometric properties of scales and methodological concerns in scale development

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The COVID-19 pandemic and first-year medical students’ academic motivation

“…Quality of Life affecting by the COVID-19 pandemic was assessed by the 6-item COV19-QoL scale created by Repišti et al (2020) [11]. The level of destruction that COVID-19 has created on the psychology of individuals was assessed by the COVID-19 Psychological Destruction Scale (COV-PDS) with "Collapse" and "Fear" dimensions created by Akan (2020) [12]. Academic amotivation level was assessed by the Academic Motivation Scale (AMS) created by Vallerand et al [13].…”