title: Confirmatory factor analysis of the Fear Questionnaire with social phobia patients.
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.
  
  
  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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Cox
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Parker
authors.forename: R P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Swinson
mesh_terms: 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