Confirmatory factor analysis of the Fear Questionnaire with social phobia patients.
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.


METHODS
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 blood/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.
Cox
B J
BJ
Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
Parker
J D
JD
Swinson
R P
RP
D000328:Adult; D000379:Agoraphobia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005239:Fear; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results