The development and validation of the multicomponent AIDS phobia scale

Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 201-216

  Harrell, Jessica Purtan ^a   Wright Jr , Lester W ^a  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AIDS phobia; Anxiety assessment; Fear of AIDS; Scale development

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOBIA; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

EID: 0031792063     PISSN: 08822689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023020617248     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Ambrosio, A., McDevitt, T. M., & Lennon, R. (1990). An examination of change in reports of AIDS-related knowledge and attitudes in 1986 and 1988. Psychological Reports, 67, 723-729.
2. American Psychiatric Association (1994). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed.) Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
3. Bouton, R. A., Gallagher, P. E., Garlinghouse, P. A., Leal, T., Rosenstein, L. D., & Young, R. K. (1987). Scales for measuring fear of AIDS and homophobia. Journal of Personality Assessment, 51, 606-614.
4. Bouton, R. A., Gallagher, P. E., Garlinghouse, P. A., Leal, T., Rosenstein, L. D., & Young, R. K. (1989). Demographic variables associated with fear of AIDS and homophobia. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 19, 885-901.
5. Bruce, B. K., & Stevens, V. M. (1992). AIDS-related obsessive compulsive disorder: A treatment dilemma. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 6, 79-88.
6. Cattell, R. B. (1966). The scree test for the number of factors. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 1, 245-276.
7. Ferguson, E., & Daniel, E. (1995). The illness attitudes scale (IAS): A psychometric evaluation on a non-clinical population. Personality and Individual Differences, 18, 463-469.
8. Harman, B. H. (1976). Modern factor analysis (3rd ed., revised). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
9. Hodgson, R. J., & Rachman, S. (1977). Obsessional-compulsive complaints. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 15, 389-395.
10. Hualla, T., & Jager, H. (1988). The Swabian study of AIDS phobies. In H. Jager (Ed.), AIDS phobia: Disease pattern and possibilities of treatment (pp. 115-122). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
11. Jager-Collet, B. (1988). The disease pattern in psychological practice. In H. Jager (Ed.), AIDS phobia: Disease pattern and possibilities of treatment (pp. 71-77). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
12. Jayaswal, S. K. (1990). Delusion of AIDS and depressive illness. Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine, 13, 81-81.
13. Keller, J. F., Elliott, S. S., & Gunberg, E. (1982). Premarital sexual intercourse among college students: A discriminant analysis. Sex Roles, 8, 21-32.
14. Kellner, R., Slocumb, J., Wiggings, R. N., Abbott, P. J., Winslow, W. W., & Pathak, D. (1985). Hostility, somatic symptoms and hypochondriacal fears and belief. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 173, 554-560.
15. Lehrer, P. M., & Woolfolk, R. L. (1982). Self-report assessment of anxiety: Somatic, cognitive, and behavioral modalities. Behavioral Assessment, 4, 167-177.
16. Logsdail, S., Lovell, K., Warwick, H., & Marks, I. (1991). Behavioural treatment of AIDS-focused illness phobia. British Journal of Psychiatry, 159, 422-425.
17. Nunnally, J. C. (1978). Psychometric theory (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw Hill.
18. O'Donnell, L., O'Donnell, C. R., Pleck, J. H., Snarey, J., & Rose, R. M. (1987). Psychosocial responses of hospital workers to acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 17, 269-285.
19. Pleck, J. H., O'Donnell, L., O'Donnell, C. R., & Snarey, J. (1988). AIDS-phobia, contact with AIDS, and AIDS-related job stress in hospital workers. Journal of Homosexuality, 15, 41-54.
20. Raymone, M. R., & Roberts, D. M. (1987). A comparison of methods for treating incomplete data in selection research. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 47, 13-26.
21. Ross, M. W. (1988). AIDS phobia: Report of 4 cases. Psychopathology, 21, 26-30.
22. Schechter, J. B., Myers, M. F., & Solyom, L. (1991). A case of obsessive-compulsive disorder related to AIDS: Psychopharmacologic treatment. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 36, 118-120.
23. Volans, P. J. (1976). Styles of decision-making and probability appraisal in selected obsessional and phobic patients. British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 15, 305-317.