Fear of Spiders Questionnaire

Szymański, J.; O’Donohue, William

doi:10.1037/t11593-000

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“…The Fear of Spiders Questionnaire (FSQ; Szymanski & O'Donohue, 1995) comprises18 items which have to be scored on a 0-7 scale (0 = does not apply to me, 7 = applies very much to me). Both measures have high internal consistency and good test-retest stability.…”

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Pathways to change in one-session exposure with and without cognitive intervention: An exploratory study in spider phobia

Raes

Koster

Loeys

et al. 2011

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

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Pathways to change in one-session exposure with and without cognitive intervention: An exploratory study in spider phobia

Raes

Koster

Loeys

et al. 2011

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

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“…Lipp et al, 2004;Miltner et al, 2004;Rinck et al, 2005;Soares et al, 2009aSoares et al, , 2009b. Animal-specific phobias and especially arachnophobia are highly prevalent in the general population (Szymanski & O'Donohue, 1995). Comparing people with and without fear of spiders thus offers a way to investigate the influence of fear on attentional selection, while controlling for all kinds of differences between stimuli.…”

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The role of fear and expectancies in capture of covert attention by spiders.

Devue¹,

Belopolsky²,

Theeuwes³

2011

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Fear-related stimuli are often prioritized during visual selection but it remains unclear whether capture by salient objects is more likely to occur when individuals fear those objects. In this study, participants with high and low fear of spiders searched for a circle while on some trials a completely irrelevant fear-related (spider) or neutral distractor (butterfly/leaf) was presented simultaneously in the display. Our results show that when you fear spiders and you are not sure whether a spider is going to be present then any salient distractor (i.e., a butterfly) grabs your attention, suggesting that mere expectation of a spider triggered compulsory monitoring of all irrelevant stimuli. However, neutral stimuli did not grab attention when high spider fearful people knew that a spider could not be present during a block of trials, treating the neutral stimuli just as the low spider fearful people do. Our results show that people that fear spiders inspect potential spider-containing locations in a compulsory fashion even though directing attention to this location is completely irrelevant for the task. Reduction of capture can only be accomplished when people that fear spiders do not expect a spider to be present.

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“…Participants were undergraduate students at a Midwestern university who completed an online posting of the Fear of Spiders Questionnaire (FSQ; Szymanski & O'Donohue, 1995). Those who reported at least a midlevel of anxiety (FSQ score of 15-32) were invited to participate in a "fear of spiders study."…”

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“…Nonparenthetical data are means or frequency counts; parenthetical data are standard deviations. CBA = control-based approach; ABA = acceptance-based approach; IBA = information-based approach; FSQ = Fear of Spiders Questionnaire (Szymanski & O'Donohue, 1995); AAQ = Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (Hayes, Strosahl, et al, 2004); PT-BAT = Perceived-Threat Behavioral Approach Test (Cochrane, Barnes-Holmes, & Barnes-Holmes, 2008). pT-BaT.…”

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Targeting Fear of Spiders with Control-, Acceptance-, and Information-Based Approaches

Wagener

Zettle

2011

Psychol Rec

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The relative impact of control-, acceptance-, and information-based approaches in targeting a midlevel fear of spiders among college students was evaluated. Participants listened to a brief protocol presenting one of the three approaches before completing the Perceived-Threat Behavioral Approach Test (PT-BAT; Cochrane, Barnes-Holmes, & BarnesHolmes, 2008). During the PT-BAT, participants placed their hands in a series of opaque jars that they were led to believe were increasingly likely to contain a spider. Participants in the acceptance-based condition progressed the farthest and were more willing to repeat the procedure a week later, despite not differing from their counterparts in levels of subjective distress. Implications for the relative efficacy of acceptance-versus control-based approaches in treatment of specific phobia, their possible differential mechanisms of action, and the use of the PT-BAT as a dependent measure in further research are discussed.Key words: arachnophobia, acceptance and commitment therapy, avoidance Arguably one of the more noteworthy developments within cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) during the past two decades has been the emergence of what have come to be regarded as "third wave" or "new wave" interventions (Hayes, 2004). What primarily distinguishes these approaches-such as mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (Segal, Williams, & Teasdale, 2002), dialectical behavior therapy (Linehan, 1993), and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT; Hayes, Strosahl, & Wilson, 1999)-from earlier generations of cognitive behavior therapies is their shared strategic focus on second-order change. In particular, instead of relying on control-based therapeutic techniques such as relaxation training, cognitive restructuring, and exposure procedures to directly minimize unwanted anxiety-related sensations and thoughts (Choy, Fyer, & Lipsitz, 2007), emphasis is shifted to the ways in which clients relate to unwanted psychological experiences. One common means of doing so among interventions within the third wave of cognitive behavior therapy is by helping clients become more mindful and accepting 78WAgEnER AnD ZETTLE of unwanted thoughts and feelings they would otherwise seek to control (Hayes, Follette, & Linehan, 2004).The development of ACT, in particular, is fairly unique as it has been both preceded and accompanied by related analogue studies comparing the effects of fairly brief control-versus acceptance-based approaches in how nonclinical samples cope with and respond to various psychological as well as biological challenges and stressors (Hayes, Luoma, Bond, Masuda, & Lillis, 2006). The primary purpose of the current investigation was to extend this line of research by comparing the differential impact of these two approaches, as well as an information-based intervention, in how participants respond to a feared stimulus. More specifically, college students were presented with brief control-, acceptance-, or information-based protocols for coping with their midlevel fear of spiders before unde...

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Fear of Spiders Questionnaire

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Pathways to change in one-session exposure with and without cognitive intervention: An exploratory study in spider phobia

Pathways to change in one-session exposure with and without cognitive intervention: An exploratory study in spider phobia

The role of fear and expectancies in capture of covert attention by spiders.

Targeting Fear of Spiders with Control-, Acceptance-, and Information-Based Approaches

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