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Standardization and scaling of the 122-item fear Survey Schedule
Donald L. Tasto,Robert Hickson +1 more
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In this article, a scale-based Z-score transformation was performed on each item which has the effect of differentially weighting raw score ratings as a function of the average rating of each item.About:
This article is published in Behavior Therapy.The article was published on 1970-11-01. It has received 14 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Raw score & Grand mean.read more
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Psychological Testing : An Introduction
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Electrodermal correlates of extraversion, trait anxiety and schitophrenisrn
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Individual differences in habituation of human physiological responses: a review of theory, method, and findings in the study of personality correlates in non-clinical populations.
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Behavioral treatment of thunder and lightning phobias.
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Hemispheric specialization and cognitive behavior therapy
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The development of a scale to measure fear.
TL;DR: The Fear Survey Schedule-II (FSS-II) correlated positively with the TMAS, Welsh's A-Scale, and Bendig's Emotionality Scale and a low negative correlation with social desirability was found.
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Factor analysis of a fear survey schedule.
TL;DR: Three factors emerged which seemed to be reasonably consistent across groups: fear of water, death-and-illness, and interpersonal events, and fear of discrete stimuli, which emerged significantly in three of the four groups.
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Factor analysis of the 122 item fear survey schedule
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a 40-item fear survey schedule with five conceptually pure factors accounting for at least 90 per cent of the variance in the variance of the survey schedule.