Table 3.

Exploratory factor analysis for the COVID-19 Infection Fear Scale (N=501)

Item	One-factor model		Two-factor model
	F1	Uniqueness	F1	F2	Uniqueness
1	0.776	0.398	0.600	0.231	0.387
2	0.804	0.353	0.782	0.089	0.281
3	0.800	0.359	0.965	-0.081	0.175
4	0.811	0.342	0.861	0.024	0.229
5	0.801	0.359	0.332	0.523	0.365
6	0.679	0.539	0.094	0.637	0.498
7	0.788	0.380	0.003	0.859	0.258
8	0.762	0.419	-0.078	0.919	0.253
9	0.717	0.485	0.132	0.641	0.450
SS loading	5.36		3.07	3.03
% of variance	59.6		34.2	33.7
Cumulative %	59.6		34.2	67.8
χ2 (df)	513(27)		107(19)
RMSEA	0.190 (0.176–0.204)		0.095 (0.079–0.114)
TLI	0.800		0.949
BIC	0.345		-11.6

The analysis was conducted using Set 1. “Principal axis factoring” extraction method was used in combination with a “oblimin” rotation. SS, sum of squares; RMSEA, root mean square error of approximation; TLI, Tucker Lewis index; BIC, Bayesian Information Criterion