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The Fear Questionnaire

Some Data on Validity, Reliability and Layout

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Florence J. Van Zuuren
Florence J. Van Zuuren*
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Weesperplein 8, 1018 XA Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Abstract

In order to assess some psychometric properties of Marks & Mathews' (1979) short Fear Questionnaire, a Dutch translation of this form was administered to 143 phobic outpatients: 100 women and 43 men. There was a special interest in assessing validity by comparing the scores of agoraphobics, social phobics and simple phobics. The findings were that all scales have sufficient internal consistency, although the Total Phobia scale does not seem to add meaningful information to its subscales. Most scales are significantly related to neuroticism, and the Social Phobia subscale is strongly related to social anxiety. The Agoraphobia and Social Phobia subscales discriminate between categories of phobics in the expected way. For the Blood/Injury subscale the relevant comparisons could not be made. The data presented in this study can be used to develop FQ norms for phobic patients.

Type
Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 153 , Issue 5 , November 1988 , pp. 659 - 662
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1988 

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