Development of the Response to Fearful Situations Scale.
Development of the Response to Fearful Situations Scale.
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DOI:
10.1017/s1352465820000466
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发表时间:
2020-11
影响因子:
1.8
通讯作者:
Cougle, Jesse R.
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作者:
McDermott, Katherine A.;Fitch, Kristin;Dillon, Kirsten H.;Mueller, Nora E.;Carlton, Corinne N.;Schmidt, Norman B.;Cougle, Jesse R.
Most measures of anxious avoidance are limited to disorder-specific mechanisms and ignore the measurement of courage/approach responding in confronting fearful situations. The purpose of the present study was to construct and validate a self-report assessment of the tendency towards avoidant or approach responding in fearful situations, the Response to Fearful Situations Scale (RFSS). In Study 1 (n = 241), exploratory factor analysis resulted in two factors, avoidance and approach. Study 2 (n = 423) replicated the two-factor structure and established test–re-test reliability. In Study 3 (n = 44), the RFSS demonstrated predictive validity on a behavioural avoidance task. In Studies 4 (n = 253) and 5 (n = 256), the RFSS was associated with clinical symptoms above existing measures of avoidance. These results validate the use of the RFSS as a transdiagnostic measure of avoidance and approach.