Factor analysis of the 122 item fear survey schedule

Rubin, Stanford E.; Lawlis, G. Frank; Tasto, Donald L.; Namenek, Thérèse M.

doi:10.1016/0005-7967(69)90068-0

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“…One study ( 6 ) used an oblique factor analytic solution, whereas the other(5) used an orthogonal solution. One study ( 6 ) used an oblique factor analytic solution, whereas the other(5) used an orthogonal solution.…”

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A factor analysis of the fear survey schedule with a psychiatric population

1972

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PROBLEM Several recent studies('* 2 , 3 , 4 , have investigated aspects of Wolpe and Lang's") Fear Survey Schedule (FSS), which was developed originally for use in planning the course of behavior therapy in cases of phobic fears. They classified the items of the inventory into six subclasses : animal, social or interpersonal, tissue damage, noises, other classical phobias, and miscellaneous. They indicated that sometimes arbitrary decisions had to be made about placement of some items in the six categories and that the classification was given to facilitate clinical use and was in no sense definitive. They also indicated they were planning a formal statistical analysis of the scale.Two factor analysesc5* 6 , of the FSS have appeared in the literature. However, both used nonpsychiatric populations (namely, introductory psychology students). This paper reports a factor analysis of the FSS on a psychiatric population. METHODSubjects. Ss were 100 inpatients of a psychiatric institute, including 50 males and 50 females. The age range was from 16 to 60 years; mean age for males, 30.7 years; for females, 32.0 years. As measured by t test, this difference was not significant. None of the patients had demonstrable organic brain damage. Otherwise, the patients were not selected, but rather constituted the first 50 male and first 50 female referrals for psychological testing to be received by the psychology department after the FSS was introduced.The FSS. The newer and more extensive revision(8) was employed. It consists of 76 discrete items. Each S read, or had read to him, the following instructions:

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A factor analysis of the fear survey schedule with a psychiatric population

1972

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“…Both college populations (e.g., Braun and Reynolds, 1969;Landy and Gaupp, 1971;Rubin et al, 1969) and patient populations (e.g., Hallam and Hafner, 1978;Lawlis, 1971) have been sampled and have provided evidence for similar factors. In particular, interpersonal events and bodily injury have consistently appeared to be reflected in the factor solutions.…”

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An investigation of the normative and factor analytic composition of six questionnaires used for subject selection

Kaloupek

Peterson

Levis

1981

Journal of Behavioral Assessment

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“…The "Inanimate threat" factor was also isolated in the present study, whereas their "Interpersonal" factor corresponds rather well to the "Anticipation fear" factor in the present study. The "Inanimate" factor was also isolated (but given other names) by Hodges & Felling (1970), Landy & Gaupp (1971), Rubin, Lawlis, Tasto & Namenek (1969), Schalling (1971), and Scherer & Nakamura (1968). In the Schalling study an "Anticipation" factor was also reported, as well as a "Pain" factor.…”

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An interactionist approach to the study of anxiety An analysis of an S‐R inventory applied to an adolescent sample

Magnusson

Ricklander

1974

Scandinavian J Psychology

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Abstract.— An inventory of anxiety was constructed according to the “S‐R format”, i.e., with situations and responses selected separately. The inventory employed 17 situation scales, supposed to induce different degrees of anxiety, and 18 response scales, supposed to represent different reactions to anxiety evoking stimuli. The Ss were a group of 128 pupils, 16years of age. The main purpose was to estimate the relative proportions of variance from the different variance sources. The results showed that individuals and situations contributed only about 6% each of the total variation, responses about 19%, the simple interactions about 30%, and the residual about 40%. Factor analyses of the situation and responsescales showed that these scales were multidimensional. For the response scales two main factors were isolated, interpreted as “Psychic anxiety”, and “Somatic anxiety”. For the situation scales three main factors were isolated, interpreted as “Threat of punishment”, “Anticipation fear”, and “Inanimate threat”.

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Factor analysis of the 122 item fear survey schedule

Cited by 42 publications

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A factor analysis of the fear survey schedule with a psychiatric population

A factor analysis of the fear survey schedule with a psychiatric population

An investigation of the normative and factor analytic composition of six questionnaires used for subject selection

An interactionist approach to the study of anxiety An analysis of an S‐R inventory applied to an adolescent sample

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