Oei T P, Cavallo G, Evans L
Anxiety Disorder and Agoraphobia Clinic, Princess Alexandra Hospital, University of Queensland, Australia.
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry. 1987 Dec;18(4):329-36. doi: 10.1016/0005-7916(87)90047-4.
The Fear Survey Schedule (FSS) has been widely used in clinical settings for the assessment of anxiety disorders yet its reliability and validity is still in doubt. This paper reports the factor structure and the validity of the FSS using 130 agoraphobics with panic attacks, 98 phobics and 108 non-patient controls. The results show that a clear 6-factor solution can be derived from the FSS and this accounts for 46% of the variance. The 6 factors are (1) agoraphobia, (2) fear of small animals, (3) social anxiety, (4) negative social evaluation fears, (5) fear of bodily harm and (6) injury and fear of social interaction. The results of discriminate analysis show the following factors, that agoraphobics differ from phobics on agoraphobia, negative evaluations, fear of bodily harm and injury and social interaction fears. Compared with the non-patient group, agoraphobics differ in all factors except the small animal fear. The findings suggest that the FSS is a very robust and valid instrument for measuring fear in anxiety disorder patients.
恐惧调查表（FSS）已在临床环境中广泛用于焦虑症的评估，但其可靠性和有效性仍受到质疑。本文报告了使用130名伴有惊恐发作的广场恐惧症患者、98名恐惧症患者和108名非患者对照对FSS的因子结构和有效性进行的研究。结果表明，FSS可得出清晰的六因子结构，这解释了46%的方差。这六个因子分别是：（1）广场恐惧症，（2）对小动物的恐惧，（3）社交焦虑，（4）对负面社会评价的恐惧，（5）对身体伤害的恐惧，以及（6）受伤和对社交互动的恐惧。判别分析结果显示了以下因子，即广场恐惧症患者在广场恐惧症、负面评价、对身体伤害和受伤以及社交互动恐惧方面与恐惧症患者存在差异。与非患者组相比，广场恐惧症患者除了对小动物的恐惧外，在所有因子上均存在差异。研究结果表明，FSS是一种用于测量焦虑症患者恐惧的非常可靠且有效的工具。
