| الوصف: |
An update and validation of a measure of the BALCI (Radomsky & Gagné, 2019). Given that the original development and validation of the BALCI focused on OCD, items may inadequately capture beliefs about losing control in other anxiety related disorders (i.e., panic disorder & social anxiety disorder). This study aims to address these limitations by first extending the current BALCI to better reflect the transdiagnostic nature of beliefs about losing control. Initially, this will consist of item development, which will focus on generating a pool of items, based on cognitive theories of anxiety and clinical experience in order to expand the current BALCI to include beliefs about losing control which may better capture the concerns of individuals with panic disorder or SAD. Following item generation, this new item pool will be administered to a sample of undergraduate students in order to generate an updated and revised scale (i.e., the BALCI-R). It is hypothesized that following item generation, four factors will emerge, mapping onto four domains over which people report concerns about losing control (i.e., behaviour, thoughts/mind, emotions and physiology/physical reactions). |
