latifi_2026_insect_fear

43,752 responses from 1,369 respondents to 32 items.

About this table

Description32-item Insect Fear Questionnaire for school-aged children in Iran (1-5 fear-intensity scale), with demographic/family covariates
ReferenceLatifi 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.
DOI10.1371/journal.pone.0344126
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Source datahttps://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?type=supplementary&id=10.1371/journal.pone.0344126.s002

Size and shape

Responses43,752
Respondents1,369
Items32
Response categories5
Responses per respondent31.959
Responses per item1367.250
Density0.999
LongitudinalFALSE

Classification

age rangeMixed
child age (for child-focused studies)Child (6-12y), Adolescent (12-18y)
sampleEducational
measurement toolSurvey/questionnaire
item formatLikert Scale/selected response
primary language(s)per

Item text

This table has item text in the IRW: the wording administered to respondents, not just the response codes.

InstrumentInsect Fear Questionnaire for School-Aged Children
Mean words per item1
Mean characters per item2
Mean characters per response9.075
Flesch-Kincaid grade level-3.400

Codebook

This codebook is reconstructed by the IRW from the IRW data standard and the script that built it, latifi_2026_insect_fear.py. It is our best reading, not the source’s own codebook, and it may contain mistakes. Where the two disagree, the source data are the authority. If you find an error, please tell us.

ColumnWhat it isSource column
IRW standard columns
idIRW standard Identifier for the focal unit being measured — typically a person, but sometimes another entity (e.g., a word in a lexical task).ID
itemIRW standard Item identifier.made in the build script
respIRW standard Response value.made in the build script
Respondent covariates
cov_ageCovariate Q9_Age
cov_education_areaCovariate Q6_Education_area
cov_education_fatherCovariate 1 = Illiterate · 2 = Elementary · 3 = Cycle (Intermediate) · 4 = Diploma · 5 = Post-diploma · 6 = Bachelor's degree · 7 = Master's degree · 8 = DoctorateQ13_FatherEducation
cov_education_motherCovariate 1 = Illiterate · 2 = Elementary · 3 = Cycle (Intermediate) · 4 = Diploma · 5 = Post-diploma · 6 = Bachelor's degree · 7 = Master's degree · 8 = DoctorateQ14_MotherEducation
cov_family_phobiaCovariate 1 = Yes · 2 = NoQ17_Fobia_family
cov_genderCovariate 1 = Girl · 2 = BoyQ10_Gender
cov_going_schoolCovariate 1 = By walking · 2 = By bus · 3 = With parentsQ8_Going_school
cov_gradeCovariate 1 = Elementary school · 2 = Guidance school · 3 = High schoolQ5_Grade
cov_how_fearCovariate
13 labelled values0 = Non · 1 = Father · 2 = Mother · 3 = Sister · 4 = Brother · 5 = sister-brother · 6 = mother-sister · 7 = mother-brother · 8 = father-sister · 9 = father-brother · 10 = father-mother · 11 = mother-brother-sister · 13 = All
Q18_how_fear
cov_job_fatherCovariate 1 = Government employee · 2 = Self-employed · 3 = Farmer · 4 = Laborer · 5 = Unemployee · 6 = OtherQ11_Jobfather
cov_job_motherCovariate 1 = Government employee · 2 = Self-employed · 3 = housewife · 4 = RetiredQ12_Jobmother
cov_locationCovariate 1 = Urban · 2 = RuralQ4_Location
cov_num_childrenCovariate Q15_Number_children
cov_rank_childCovariate 1 = First · 2 = Second · 3 = Third · 4 = Fourth · 5 = FifthQ16_Rank_child
cov_schooltypeCovariate 1 = Public school · 2 = Private schoolQ7_schooltype

Covariate value labels are the source’s own, as the IRW recorded them. What item codes and any unlabelled values stand for is in the source’s documentation, S1_Table.docx.

Get the data

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Or load it directly in R or Python (both need a free Redivis account; the first call opens a browser to sign in):

# 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")

How to cite

@article{Latifi_2026, title={Development and psychometric validation of the insect fear questionnaire for school-aged children in Iran}, volume={21}, ISSN={1932-6203}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0344126}, DOI={10.1371/journal.pone.0344126}, number={3}, journal={PLOS One}, publisher={Public Library of Science (PLoS)}, author={Latifi, Arman and Farahbakhsh, Mostafa and Yousefi, Saideh and Azimi, Somayeh and Alizadeh, Mahasti and Jafari-Koshki, Tohid and Soltani, Aboozar and Rahimi, Sara and Abbasi, Madineh}, editor={Saadati, Mohammad}, year={2026}, month=Mar, pages={e0344126} }

Version and provenance

IRW versionv566
Redivis datasetitem_response_warehouse_3 v13.0
Redivis dataset DOI10.57761/gpg7-sg87
Manifest pin for this IRW versionv13.0
Metadata sourceirw_meta v43.0