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Cynthia Moreno

Mrs. McCann

English 1302.201

1 February 2022

Validation of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale in the US College Sample – Week 2

The journal article “Validation of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale in the US College

Sample” was published by the journal International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction.

The article seems to be peer-reviewed as it has the features that many peer-reviewed articles

have. Characteristics like an abstract and the citations can be seen when analyzing the journal

article. The article can also be found in a database if searched for. These are features that tend to

indicate whether or not an article is peer-reviewed.

The thesis of the journal article revolves around the impacts that COVID-19 has on

college students. The researchers in the article conduct an experiment and collect data having to

do with anxiety levels due to the students’ situations during the COVID-19 pandemic. The target

audience of the article could be psychologists and other researchers. The article mentions that it

is recommended for people affected or impacted by COVID-19 to get treatment for their anxiety.

This is why psychologists could be an audience that the journal article is targeting.
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Work Cited

Perz, Catherine A., Brent A. Lang, and Harrington, Rick. "Validation of the Fear of COVID-19

Scale in a US College Sample." International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction

(2020): 1-11.