Spider phobia questionnaire for children (SPQ-C): A psychometric study and normative data

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 277-282

  Kindt, Merel ^a   Brosschot, Jos F ^a   Muris, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOBIA; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; SPIDER;

EID: 0029898077     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0005-7967(95)00069-0     Document Type: Article

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