Table 2.

Descriptive statistics and item-total correlation of the COVID-19 Infection Fear Scale (N=1,002)

Item	Mean±SD	Skewness	Kurtosis	Scale		Subscale 1		Subscale 2
				Corrected item-total correlation	α if item deleted	Corrected item-total correlation	α if item deleted	Corrected item-total correlation	α if item deleted
1	1.56±0.80	-0.33	-0.37	0.762	0.925	0.773	0.906
2	1.81±0.82	-0.51	-0.10	0.770	0.924	0.799	0.898
3	1.81±0.88	-0.50	-0.38	0.784	0.923	0.855	0.878
4	1.76±0.91	-0.46	-0.51	0.798	0.922	0.824	0.890
5	1.63±0.89	-0.30	-0.61	0.780	0.923			0.725	0.865
6	1.33±0.95	0.23	-0.85	0.655	0.931			0.663	0.879
7	1.53±0.94	-0.09	-0.88	0.769	0.924			0.792	0.849
8	1.36±0.92	0.12	-0.84	0.740	0.924			0.770	0.855
9	1.58±0.99	-0.14	-1.02	0.710	0.928			0.700	0.871
Mean±SD at scale level				14.38±6.55		6.95±3.06		7.44±3.91
Cronbach’s α				0.933		0.918		0.888

Subscale 1, fear of infection; Subscale 2, fear of negative consequences after infection; SD, standard deviation