Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Fear Questionnaire with Social Phobia Patients
- 1 April 1996
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 168 (4) , 497-499
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.168.4.497
Abstract
Background: The Fear Questionnaire is an internationally popular measure in anxiety disorder research, but its validity with social phobia patients has not been clearly demonstrated.Method: A confirmatory factor analysis was conducted using the Fear Questionnaire responses of 122 social phobia patients.Results: The results indicated that the proposed three-factor model of the scale (agoraphobia, social phobia, and Wood/injury dimensions) provided a good fit to the data.Conclusions: These data provide strong support for the validity of the scale and for the multidimensional view of fears proposed by Arrindell.Keywords
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