Does the Beck Anxiety Inventory measure anything beyond panic attack symptoms?
Does the Beck Anxiety Inventory measure anything beyond panic attack symptoms?
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DOI：
10.1016/s0005-7967(96)00037-x
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发表时间：
1996-11-01
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
Swinson, RP
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作者：
Cox, BJ;Cohen, E;Swinson, RP
贝克焦虑量表(BAI)已经成为焦虑评估的流行测量工具，BAI在内容上与抑郁症的测量并不重叠。也有一些因素分析证据支持这一区别。然而，对BAI内容的检查表明，它的许多项目与DSM-IV中列出的恐慌症发作症状相似或相同。对BAI条目和恐慌发作问卷中包含的个体DSM-IV恐慌症状进行的因素分析的结果进一步支持了这种怀疑，使用了157名惊恐障碍患者的样本数据。出现了一个三因素模型(与头晕相关的、灾难性的认知/恐惧、心肺窘迫)，该模型复制了另一个恐慌症样本的早期研究中确定的恐慌症状的三因素模型。除一项外，所有的BAI条目在三个惊恐症状群上的负荷都很高，没有获得单独的BAI因素。白族人似乎对恐慌症发作感到困惑，或者实际上衡量的是恐慌症发作，而不是总体上的焦虑。本文还讨论了这一发现的几点启示。版权所有(C)1996爱思唯尔科学有限公司
The Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) has become a popular measure in anxiety assessment and the BAI does not overlap in content with measures Of depression. There is also some factor analytic evidence to support this distinction. However, an inspection of the BAI's content indicates that many of its items resemble, or are identical to, the symptoms of panic attacks listed in the DSM-IV. Further empirical support for this suspicion is provided from the results of a factor analysis of the BAI items and the individual DSM-IV panic symptoms contained in the Panic Attack Questionnaire, using data from a sample of 157 panic disorder patients. A three-factor model (dizziness related, catastrophic cognitions/fear, cardiorespiratory distress) emerged that replicated a three-factor model of panic symptoms identified in earlier work with another panic disorder sample. All but one of the BAI items loaded highly on the three panic symptom clusters and no separate BAI factor was obtained. The BAI appears to be confounded with, or actually measures, panic attacks rather than anxiety in general. Several implications of this finding are discussed. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd