Fisher April Bryington, Schaefer Barbara A, Watkins Marley W, Worrell Frank C, Hall Tracey E
Department of Educational and School Psychology and Special Education, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
J Anxiety Disord. 2006;20(6):740-59. doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2005.11.003. Epub 2005 Dec 7.
Part of understanding normal and abnormal fear in children and adolescents is having knowledge of how they acquire fears and of how fears change across development. One way to examine the relative contributions of heredity and environment to the experience of fear is to study fear across cultures. The Fear Survey Schedule for Children-II (FSSC-II; Gullone, E., & King, N. J. (1992). Psychometric evaluation of a revised fear survey schedule for children and adolescents. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 33, 987-998) is one measure that has some evidence for cross-cultural validity. The present analysis examined the factor structure of the FSSC-II scores of 884 Trinidadian children and adolescents. Factor consistency across age, sex, and nationality (Trinidadian and American) was examined by calculating the coefficients of congruence for each pair of conceptually similar factors. Results indicated a five-factor structure for the overall sample. Although the solution was conceptually similar to those reported in other studies that used versions of the FSSC, the obtained structure was not congruent across age, sex, or nationality.
了解儿童和青少年正常与异常恐惧的一部分是要知晓他们如何习得恐惧以及恐惧在整个发育过程中如何变化。检验遗传和环境对恐惧体验相对贡献的一种方法是跨文化研究恐惧。儿童恐惧调查表第二版（FSSC-II；古洛内，E.，& 金，N. J.（1992年）。儿童和青少年修订恐惧调查表的心理测量评估。《儿童心理学与精神病学杂志》，33，987 - 998）是一项具有一定跨文化效度证据的测量工具。本分析考察了884名特立尼达儿童和青少年FSSC-II得分的因素结构。通过计算每对概念上相似因素的一致性系数，检验了年龄、性别和国籍（特立尼达和美国）之间的因素一致性。结果表明总体样本呈现五因素结构。尽管该结果在概念上与其他使用FSSC版本的研究报告相似，但所获得的结构在年龄、性别或国籍方面并不一致。
