Fear Questionnaire (FQ)
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(Fear Questionnaire, FQ)
• General information:
Año creación: 1979
Original bibliographic citation:
Marks IM and Mathews AM. Brief standard self-rating for phobic patients. Behavior
Research and Therapy 1979; 17: 263-7.
• Objective:
The Fear Questionnaire (FQ) was developed in order to
to have a self-administered tool for quick assessment and objectification
simple phobias.
• Application: instructions.
This instrument has been mainly applied to agoraphobic patients, social phobia,
general anxiety disorders, alcoholism, and the general population.
• Characteristics: description
It consists of three sections. In the first, the patient describes their main phobia and assesses
her level of avoidance for her and other potentially phobic situations (items 1-17)
In the second, you should indicate the degree of discomfort that certain symptoms cause you.
phobics (items 18-23). In the third one, you must assess the level of interference that it causes you.
they produce their phobic symptoms in their daily life.
Each of the items is evaluated on a scale from 0 to 8 points (the
scores 1, 3, 5, and 7 do not have verbal labels), coinciding the value 0 with the lowest
degree of avoidance or anxiety.
After the evaluation of this instrument, four scores are obtained:
"Main phobia": item score 1 (range 0 to 8).
b) "Total Phobia": sum of the scores of items 2 to 16 (range 0 to 120). It can be
divide into three (each range from 0 to 40):
"Agoraphobia": total score of items 5, 6, 8, 12, and 15.
"Fear of blood and physical injuries": sum scores items 2, 4, 10, 13
and 16.
"Social Phobia": total scores of items 3, 7, 9, 11, and 14.
"Anxiety-depression": sum scores from items 18 to 22 (range 0 to 40)
d) “Global phobia”: evaluation of the last item (range 0 to 8).
• Discussion:
Reliability: Internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha 0.93), which ranges between 0.79 and 0.96 in
based on the scores considered (main phobia/ total phobia/ anxiety-depression/ phobia
The test-retest reliability of 0.68.
Validity: Correlation with other social anxiety and shyness measurement instruments usually
to be above 0.75, while the correlations with other general measures of
anxiety is low.
FEAR QUESTIONNAIRE
SECTION I 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
SECTION II
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Indicatethedegreeofinterferencethatyoursymptomscurrentlyhave.
phobicsintheirdailylife
SCORES:
MAIN PHOBIA
TOTAL PHOBIA
Agoraphobia
Phobia to blood and injuries
physical
Fobia social
ANXIETY-DEPRESSION
GLOBAL PHOBIA
