The Fear of COVID-19 Scale
The scale developed by Ahorsu et al. (2020) was adapted to Turkish by
Bakioğlu et al. (2020). the scale consists of one dimension and 7 items12. There is no reverse item in the scale. Each
statement in the scale has a Likert-type scoring ranging from 1(strongly
disagree) to 5 (strongly agree). The total score obtained from all items
of the scale reflects the level of fear of coronavirus (COVID-19)
experienced by the individual. The scores that can be obtained from the
scale range between 7 and 35. A high score indicates “high” level of
COVID-19 fear. The Cronbach alpha internal consistency coefficient of
the scale was found to be .88 12. In this study, the
Cronbach alpha internal consistency coefficient was found to be .87.