BACKGROUND: The Fear Questionnaire is an internationally popular measure in anxiety disorder research, but its validity with social phobia patients has not been clearly demonstrated. METHOD: A confirmatory factor analysis was conducted using the Fear Questionnaire responses of 122 social phobia patients. RESULTS: The results indicated that the proposed three-factor model of the scale (agoraphobia, social phobia, and blood/injury dimensions) provided a good fit to the data. CONCLUSIONS: These data provide strong support for the validity of the scale and for the multidimensional view of fears proposed by Arrindell.
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