The COVID Psychosocial Impacts Scale: A Reliable and Valid Tool to Examine the Psychosocial Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Sandila Tanveer, Philip J. Schluter, Ben Beaglehole, Richard J. Porter, Joseph Boden, Ruqayya Sulaiman-Hill, Damian Scarf, Shaystah Dean, Fatima Assad, Mahammad Abul Hasnat and Caroline Bell ()
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Sandila Tanveer: Department of Psychological Medicine, Christchurch Campus, University of Otago, Christchurch 8011, New Zealand
Philip J. Schluter: Te Kaupeka Oranga|Faculty of Health, Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha|University of Canterbury, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand
Ben Beaglehole: Department of Psychological Medicine, Christchurch Campus, University of Otago, Christchurch 8011, New Zealand
Richard J. Porter: Department of Psychological Medicine, Christchurch Campus, University of Otago, Christchurch 8011, New Zealand
Joseph Boden: Department of Psychological Medicine, Christchurch Campus, University of Otago, Christchurch 8011, New Zealand
Ruqayya Sulaiman-Hill: Department of Psychological Medicine, Christchurch Campus, University of Otago, Christchurch 8011, New Zealand
Damian Scarf: Department of Psychology, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand
Shaystah Dean: Department of Psychological Medicine, Wellington Campus, University of Otago, Wellington 6021, New Zealand
Fatima Assad: Department of Psychiatry, HITEC Institute of Medical Sciences, Taxila 47078, Pakistan
Mahammad Abul Hasnat: Department of Education, Milestone College, Dhaka 1230, Bangladesh
Caroline Bell: Department of Psychological Medicine, Christchurch Campus, University of Otago, Christchurch 8011, New Zealand

IJERPH, 2023, vol. 20, issue 11, 1-21

Abstract: This paper reports on the development and validation of the COVID Psychosocial Impacts Scale (CPIS), a self-report measure that comprehensively examines both positive and negative psychosocial impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the first part of the program of work in which the CPIS was administered and compared with a measure of psychological distress (Kessler Psychological Distress Scale, K-10) and wellbeing (World Health Organization Well-Being Index, WHO-5). The data were obtained online in 2020 and 2022 at two distinct time points to capture different exposures to the pandemic in the New Zealand population to a non-representative sample of 663 and 687 adults, respectively. Two hundred seventy-one participants took part in both surveys. Findings indicate a unidimensional structure within CPIS subscales and inter-relatedness among CPIS stress-related subscales. The scatter plots and correlation matrix indicate CPIS having a positive moderate correlation with K10 and a negative moderate correlation with WHO-5, indicative of construct validity. The paper outlines contextual factors surrounding CPIS development and makes suggestions for future iterations of CPIS. Further work will examine its psychometric properties across cultures.

Keywords: COVID-19; psychosocial impacts; psychological distress; wellbeing; reliability; validity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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