Cross-cultural validation of the Worries about COVID-19 and its consequences Scale (W-COV) in adolescents and young people.
Estefanía Mónaco, Konstanze Schoeps, Selene Valero-Moreno and 8 others
PMID 36064240WHAT IT FOUND
A 16-item questionnaire about COVID-19 worries grouped into health, economic and social concerns in 5559 adolescents and young adults.
More social and emotional worries were linked with lower life satisfaction.
Key findings
01The W-COV scale asks about 16 worries and groups them into health, economic and psychosocial concerns.
02The worry pattern was acceptable in the whole sample and in each country.
03Health worries were positively associated with life satisfaction, while economic and psychosocial worries were negatively associated.
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What it does not show
The sample was a convenience and snowball online sample, so it may not represent all adolescents and young adults. The sample was 83.2% female and only 1.2% non-binary, and some country samples were small. The study was cross-sectional, so it could not test whether the scale gives stable results over time. All data were self-reported, so the findings rely on participants' own answers. Only one European country, Spain, was included, so results may not apply to other cultures.
Declared interests
Funded by grants from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and the European Regional Development Fund. The authors declared no conflict of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not treat the W-COV as a tested clinical intervention or a diagnostic tool. The study was a cross-sectional self-report survey, and the associations with life satisfaction do not show that reducing worries improves well-being.