Ehlers Anke, Taylor Joanne E, Ehring Thomas, Hofmann Stefan G, Deane Frank P, Roth Walton T, Podd John V
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK.
J Anxiety Disord. 2007;21(4):493-509. doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2006.08.002. Epub 2006 Sep 18.
Recent research has suggested that fear of driving is common in the general population. People may have various concerns when driving, and instruments for the assessment of these concerns are lacking. The present paper describes the development and preliminary evaluation of the Driving Cognitions Questionnaire (DCQ). The DCQ is a 20-item scale that measures three areas of driving-related concerns--panic-related, accident-related, and social concerns. In three separate samples from different countries (n=69, 100, and 78), the scale showed good internal consistency and substantial correlations with measures of the severity of driving fear. It discriminated well between people with and without driving phobia. It also showed convergent validity with other measures. The questionnaire shows promise for use in research and clinical practice.
近期研究表明，在普通人群中，驾驶恐惧很常见。人们在驾驶时可能有各种担忧，而用于评估这些担忧的工具却很缺乏。本文描述了驾驶认知问卷（DCQ）的编制及初步评估。DCQ是一个包含20个条目的量表，用于测量与驾驶相关的三个担忧领域——恐慌相关、事故相关和社交担忧。在来自不同国家的三个独立样本（n = 69、100和78）中，该量表显示出良好的内部一致性，并且与驾驶恐惧严重程度的测量指标有显著相关性。它能很好地区分有驾驶恐惧症和没有驾驶恐惧症的人。它与其他测量方法也显示出收敛效度。该问卷在研究和临床实践中具有应用前景。
