Fear of COVID-19: Data of a large longitudinal survey conducted between March 2020 and June 2021.

ABSTRACT: 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 (N = 439) who completed a cross-sectional survey in March 2020. The second sample consists of a large-scale lon

SUBMITTER: Mertens G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10127663 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature