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2022

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The Coronavirus Shopping Anxiety Scale: Initial Validation And Development, Ruchika Sachdeva Jan 2022

The Coronavirus Shopping Anxiety Scale: Initial Validation And Development, Ruchika Sachdeva

WCBT Faculty Publications

Purpose

The purpose of this study is to develop a scale to measure coronavirus shopping anxiety. Numerous studies have developed a scale for measuring coronavirus anxiety and fear, notably absent is a concerted effort to review and assess the impact of coronavirus on the shopping anxiety of consumers. This scale fulfills this gap.

Design/methodology/approach

The steps taken for checking the various psychometrics of the scale include item generation, followed by exploratory factor analysis (EFA) through SPSS and confirmatory factor analysis through AMOS. The data were collected from over 208 respondents.

Findings

This study resulted in the development of a nine-item …