Table 3.

Psychometric properties of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale at the scale level (n = 717)

Psychometric testing	Value	Suggested cutoff
Composite reliability	0.88	> 0.7
Average variance extracted	0.51	> 0.5
Internal consistency (Cronbach’s α)	0.82	> 0.7
Standard error of measurement	1.89	The smaller the better
Item separation reliability from Rasch	0.99	> 0.7
Item separation index from Rasch	11.45	> 2
Person separation reliability from Rasch	0.77	> 0.7
Person separation index from Rasch	2.82	> 2