TABLE 7.

Factor loadings and item intercepts in the Fear of COVID‐19 Scale (FCV‐19S)

	Country											Gender		Age group
	Bangladesh	UK	Brazil	Taiwan	Italy	NZ	Iran	Cuba	Pakistan	Japan	French	Male	Female	Children	Adults	Elderly
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F1	0.695	0.693	0.701	0.608	0.689	0.588	0.471	0.588	0.710	0.576	0.675	0.611	0.652	0.472	0.648	0.609
F2 a	0.631	0.668	0.706	0.860	0.621	0.698	0.373	0.417	0.751	0.552	0.668	0.646	0.678	0.462	0.673	0.610
F3 a	0.739	0.701	0.613	0.815	0.648	0.721	0.635	0.433	0.681	0.632	0.697	0.730	0.696	0.633	0.712	0.794
F4	0.727	0.742	0.720	0.757	0.726	0.808	0.738	0.690	0.749	0.661	0.739	0.701	0.704	0.541	0.723	0.719
F5	0.749	0.695	0.711	0.733	0.651	0.587	0.556	0.705	0.704	0.570	0.619	0.679	0.717	0.493	0.706	0.690
F6	0.659	0.727	0.807	0.751	0.857	0.811	0.673	0.640	0.668	0.681	0.819	0.749	0.705	0.739	0.731	0.750
F7	0.689	0.830	0.764	0.855	0.690	0.876	0.845	0.667	0.729	0.698	0.856	0.761	0.730	0.700	0.755	0.805
Intercept
F1 b	3.477	3.382	3.254	2.598	3.726	3.020	2.050	1.884	3.231	4.017	3.291	3.040	3.131	2.850	3.062	2.611
F2	3.355	2.982	2.759	2.608	2.816	3.021	4.263	2.568	3.096	2.890	2.787	2.912	2.952	2.563	2.928	2.407
F3 b	2.214	2.420	2.004	2.432	2.122	2.954	2.924	1.150	2.283	2.366	2.497	2.063	1.898	2.155	1.902	1.922
F4 b	2.389	2.576	2.419	2.464	2.491	2.968	3.155	1.510	2.615	3.759	2.442	2.340	2.268	2.149	2.255	2.033
F5 b	3.303	3.115	2.661	2.593	2.838	2.859	2.119	2.135	3.059	2.886	2.794	2.825	2.883	2.520	2.831	2.508
F6 b	2.164	2.310	2.125	2.395	2.453	3.005	3.656	1.181	2.164	2.404	2.498	2.065	1.875	2.428	1.883	1.751
F7	2.268	2.517	2.120	2.361	2.200	3.083	3.746	1.603	2.315	2.559	2.603	2.133	1.978	2.347	1.984	1.918
FCV‐19S	0.000	−0.743	−0.572	−0.807	−0.804	−1.435	2.132	0.300	−0.595	−0.847	−1.061	−0.251	0.000	−0.527	0.000	−0.193

The loadings and intercepts were calculated using constrained models (M5 in Table 5 for country; M8 in Table 5 for gender).

^aRelaxed for factor loadings.

^bRelaxed for item intercepts.