title: [Validation and factor analysis of a phobia scale. The French version of the Marks-Mathews fear questionnaire].
abstract: The fear questionnaire (Marks and Mathews) is presented in an original french translation. The questionnaire's validity, sensibility and reliability are studied in four groups: agoraphobia with panic attacks, obsession-compulsion, social phobia and control. The scale has a good empirical validity especially for agoraphobia measurement. However in our study the boundaries between obsession compulsion and social phobia appear questionable. Principal components analysis yields four factors similar to those found by Marks and Mathews: agoraphobia, blood and injury phobia, social phobia, and anxiety-depression (including one panic item).
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000379:Agoraphobia / Q000523:psychology; D001007:Anxiety; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005239:Fear; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D010200:Panic; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D011581:Psychological Tests
vernacular_title: Validation et analyse factorielle d'une échelle de phobies. La version française du questionnaire des peurs de Marks et Mathews.