دورية أكاديمية
Development and Initial Validation of the Medical Fear Survey-Short Version
| العنوان: | Development and Initial Validation of the Medical Fear Survey-Short Version |
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| اللغة: | English |
| المؤلفون: | Olatunji, Bunmi O., Ebesutani, Chad, Sawchuk, Craig N., McKay, Dean, Lohr, Jeffrey M., Kleinknecht, Ronald A. |
| المصدر: | Assessment. Sep 2012 19(3):318-336. |
| الإتاحة: | SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: journals@sagepub.com; Web site: http://sagepub.comTest |
| تمت مراجعته من قبل الزملاء: | Y |
| Page Count: | 19 |
| تاريخ النشر: | 2012 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Education Level: | Higher Education Postsecondary Education |
| الواصفات: | Fear, Medicine, Surveys, Test Construction, Test Validity, Item Response Theory, Likert Scales, Correlation, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure, Structural Equation Models, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: | Netherlands, United States |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1073191111415368 |
| تدمد: | 1073-1911 |
| مستخلص: | The present investigation employs item response theory (IRT) to develop an abbreviated Medical Fear Survey (MFS). Application of IRT analyses in Study 1 (n = 931) to the original 50-item MFS resulted in a 25-item shortened version. Examination of the location parameters also resulted in a reduction of the Likert-type scaling of the MFS by removing the last response category ("Terror"). The five subscales of the original MFS were highly correlated with those of the MFS-short version. The short version also displayed comparable convergent and discriminant validity with the original MFS in relation to measures of fear, disgust, and anxiety. Confirmatory factor analysis in Study 2 revealed that the five-factor structure of the MFS-short form fit the data well in U.S. (n = 283) and Dutch (n = 258) samples. The short form also had comparable convergent and discriminant validity with the original MFS in relation to domains of disgust in both samples. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis in Study 3 demonstrated that the subscales of the short version were comparable with the original MFS in classifying participants high (n = 40) and low (n = 40) in blood/injection phobia. Last, structural equation modeling in Study 4 (n = 113) revealed that the MFS-short form demonstrated excellent convergent/discriminant validity with strong associations with injection fear and no association with spider fear. These findings suggest that the MFS-short form has considerable strengths, including decreased assessment time, while retaining sound psychometric properties. (Contains 3 figures, 7 tables and 4 notes.) |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Number of References: | 68 |
| Entry Date: | 2012 |
| رقم الانضمام: | EJ973858 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | ERIC |
| تدمد: | 1073-1911 |
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| DOI: | 10.1177/1073191111415368 |