43,752 responses from 1,369 respondents to 32 items.
| Description | 32-item Insect Fear Questionnaire for school-aged children in Iran (1-5 fear-intensity scale), with demographic/family covariates |
|---|---|
| Reference | Latifi A, Farahbakhsh M, Yousefi S, Azimi S, Alizadeh M, Jafari-Koshki T, Soltani A, Rahimi S, Abbasi M (2026) Development and psychometric validation of the insect fear questionnaire for school-aged children in Iran. PLoS ONE. |
| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0344126 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Source data | https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?type=supplementary&id=10.1371/journal.pone.0344126.s002 |
| Responses | 43,752 |
|---|---|
| Respondents | 1,369 |
| Items | 32 |
| Response categories | 5 |
| Responses per respondent | 31.959 |
| Responses per item | 1367.250 |
| Density | 0.999 |
| Longitudinal | FALSE |
| age range | Mixed |
|---|---|
| child age (for child-focused studies) | Child (6-12y), Adolescent (12-18y) |
| sample | Educational |
| measurement tool | Survey/questionnaire |
| item format | Likert Scale/selected response |
| primary language(s) | per |
This table has item text in the IRW: the wording administered to respondents, not just the response codes.
| Instrument | Insect Fear Questionnaire for School-Aged Children |
|---|---|
| Mean words per item | 1 |
| Mean characters per item | 2 |
| Mean characters per response | 9.075 |
| Flesch-Kincaid grade level | -3.400 |
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Or load it directly in R or Python:
# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("latifi_2026_insect_fear")
# Python
pip install irw
import irw
df = irw.fetch("latifi_2026_insect_fear")
| IRW version | v393 |
|---|---|
| Redivis dataset | item_response_warehouse_3 v7.0 |
| Redivis dataset DOI | 10.57761/pqqn-pm43 |
| Manifest pin for this IRW version | v7.0 |
| Metadata source | irw_meta v23.0 |