Further evidence for cross-sample invariance of phobic factors: psychiatric inpatient ratings on the Fear Survey Schedule-III |
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| Authors: | W A Arrindell J van der Ende |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia;2. ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and Its Disorders, Australia;3. Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, Canada;4. Neurosciences and Mental Health Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada;1. Department of Psychiatry, Stellenbosch University, South Africa;2. Department of Psychiatry, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa;1. Department of Psychology, McGill University, 1205 Dr. Penfield Avenue, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1B1, Canada;2. Douglas Mental Health University Institute, 6875 LaSalle Boulevard, Verdun, Quebec H4H 1R3, Canada;3. Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, 1033 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1A1, Canada;1. Guangzhou Brain Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China;2. Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA |
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| Abstract: | Using two distinct methods of confirmatory analysis (factor invariance), phobic dimensions as measured by the Wolpe and Lang (1964) Fear Survey Schedule—III (“Social Fears”, “Agoraphobic Fears”, “Fears of Bodily Injury, Death and Illness”, “Fears of Sexual and Aggressive Scenes” and “Harmless Animals Fears”), identified in a previous study (Arrindell, 1980), were found to generalize from a non-institutionalized phobic (predominantly agoraphobic) sample to a heterogeneous psychiatric inpatient sample, irrespective of the method of analysis. Psychometric properties of the corresponding scales (inter-subscale correlations and reliability data) were encouraging and very similar to those obtained previously (Arrindell, 1980; Arrindell, Emmelkamp and van der Ende, 1984). The use of confirmatory techniques in determining the factorial validity of fear measures or their stability or generalizability across important S parameters is emphasized. It is argued that there is invariance of an Agoraphobic factor across multisamples and its importance is briefly pinpointed. |
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