Mertens Gaëtan, Lodder Paul, Smeets Tom, Duijndam Stefanie
Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology, Tilburg University, PO box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, the Netherlands.
Department of Methodology and Statistics, Tilburg University, PO Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, the Netherlands.
Data Brief. 2023 Jun;48:109177. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2023.109177. Epub 2023 Apr 25.
Research indicates that fear was an important factor in determining individual responses to COVID-19, predicting relevant behaviors such as compliance to preventive measures (e.g., hand washing) and stress reactions (e.g., poor sleep quality). Given this central role of fear, it is important to understand more about its temporal changes during the COVID-19 pandemic. This article describes a publicly available dataset that contains longitudinal assessment of fear of COVID-19 and other relevant constructs during the first 15 months of the pandemic. Particularly, the dataset contains data from two different samples. The first sample consists predominantly of Dutch respondents ( = 439) who completed a cross-sectional survey in March 2020. The second sample consists of a large-scale longitudinal survey ( = 2000 at T1), including respondents with a broad range of nationalities (though predominantly residing in Europe and North America; 95.6%). The respondents of the second sample completed the survey between April 2020 and August 2020 using the Prolific data collection platform. In addition, one follow-up assessment was completed in June 2021. The measures included in the survey were fear of COVID-19, demographic information (age, gender, country of residence, education level, and working in healthcare), anxious traits (i.e., intolerance of uncertainty, health anxiety, and worrying), media use, self-rated health, perceived ability to prevent infection, and perceived risk for loved ones. Additionally, at the follow-up assessment in June 2021, respondents were asked whether they were vaccinated against COVID-19 or were planning to get vaccinated. The datafiles of this study have been made available through the Open Science Framework and can be freely reused by psychologists, social scientists, and other researchers who wish to investigate the development, correlates, and consequences of fear of COVID-19.
研究表明，恐惧是决定个体对新冠疫情反应的一个重要因素，它能预测诸如遵守预防措施（如洗手）和应激反应（如睡眠质量差）等相关行为。鉴于恐惧的这一核心作用，更深入地了解其在新冠疫情期间的时间变化很重要。本文描述了一个公开可用的数据集，该数据集包含了疫情头15个月期间对新冠恐惧及其他相关构念的纵向评估。具体而言，该数据集包含来自两个不同样本的数据。第一个样本主要由荷兰受访者（n = 439）组成，他们于2020年3月完成了一项横断面调查。第二个样本是一项大规模纵向调查（T1时n = 2000），包括来自广泛国籍的受访者（尽管主要居住在欧洲和北美；95.6%）。第二个样本的受访者在2020年4月至2020年8月期间使用Prolific数据收集平台完成了调查。此外，在2021年6月完成了一次随访评估。调查中包括的测量指标有对新冠的恐惧、人口统计学信息（年龄、性别、居住国家、教育水平以及是否从事医疗工作）、焦虑特质（即对不确定性的不耐受、健康焦虑和担忧）、媒体使用情况、自我评定的健康状况、感知到的预防感染能力以及对亲人的感知风险。此外，在2021年6月的随访评估中，受访者被问及是否接种了新冠疫苗或是否计划接种疫苗。本研究的数据文件已通过开放科学框架提供，希望研究对新冠恐惧的发展、相关因素和后果的心理学家、社会科学家及其他研究人员可以免费重复使用。
