Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of Samples 1 and 2.
Table 2.
Percentage of the participants with high endorsement (answers 4 or 5) of specific items of COVID-19 anxiety (relates much/very much), safety behaviours (often/always) and cyberchondria (often/most of the time) items.
Table 3.
Comparison of measurement invariance models between Wave 1 (n = 888) and Wave 2 (n = 966).
Table 4.
Pearson correlations and reliability of the Short Cyberchondria Scale (SCS, k = 4), three COVID-19 Safety Behaviour Checklist subscales (CSBC, k = 2/3/2) and the COVID-19 Anxiety Scale (CAS, k = 4) at the two waves (1 & 2).
Table 5.
The effects of cyberchondria (SCS) for predicting COVID-19 related behaviour (CSBC) via COVID-19 related anxiety (CAS), moderated by waves of measurement.
Fig 1.
The relationship between the Short Cyberchondria Scale (SCS) and a. COVID-19 Anxiety Scale (CAS) and b. the three COVID-19 Safety Behaviour Checklist subscales on Wave 1 (full line) and 2 (dashed line).
Table 6.
Means (and standard deviations) of the Short Cyberchondria Scale (SCS), three COVID-19 Safety Behaviour Checklist subscales (CSBC) and the COVID-19 Anxiety Scale (CAS) on the two waves.