Table 4.
Measures of central tendencies and results of Principal Component Analysis of the Slovenian version of the Fear of COVID-19 scale.
| Code | Text | N | Mean | Median | Mode | SD | Skewness | Kurtosis | Comm | F1 | F2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FCOVb | It makes me uncomfortable to think about coronavirus-19 | 4707 | 2.88 | 3.00 | 4 | 1.29 | − 0.090 | − 1.218 | 0.869 | 0.993 | |
| FCOVe | When watching news and stories about coronavirus-19 on social media, I become nervous or anxious | 4709 | 2.70 | 3.00 | 1 | 1.33 | 0.138 | − 1.227 | 0.401 | 0.572 | |
| FCOVa | I am most afraid of coronavirus-19 | 4709 | 2.33 | 2.00 | 2 | 1.10 | 0.442 | − 0.613 | 0.486 | 0.461 | |
| FCOVc | My hands become clammy when I think about coronavirus-19 | 4706 | 1.46 | 1.00 | 1 | 0.79 | 1.912 | 3.688 | 0.458 | 0.582 | |
| FCOVd | I am afraid of losing my life because of coronavirus-19 | 4705 | 1.43 | 1.00 | 1 | 0.79 | 2.134 | 4.699 | 0.493 | 0.672 | |
| FCOVf | I cannot sleep because I’m worrying about getting coronavirus-19 | 4710 | 1.28 | 1.00 | 1 | 0.64 | 2.773 | 8.619 | 0.664 | 0.866 | |
| FCOV1g | My heart races or palpitates when I think about getting coronavirus-19 | 4710 | 1.41 | 1.00 | 1 | 0.79 | 2.279 | 5.301 | 0.693 | 0.842 | |
| Alpha | Cronbach's alpha | 0.831 | 0.764 | ||||||||
| Eigenvalue | 3.703 | 1.091 | |||||||||
| % Variance | 47.068 | 10.985 |
Items are ordered by decreasing mean.
SD standard deviation, Comm. Communalities. F1 Component loadings of the first principal component. F1 Component loadings of the second principal component.