The Driving Cognitions Questionnaire: Development and preliminary psychometric properties

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 493-509

  Ehlers, Anke ^a   Taylor, Joanne E ^b   Ehring, Thomas ^a   Hofmann, Stefan G ^c   Deane, Frank P ^d   Roth, Walton T ^e,f   Podd, John V ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^e VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Driving phobia; Panic disorder; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Social phobia; Travel phobia

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRIVING ABILITY; DRIVING COGNITION QUESTIONNAIRE; EVALUATION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PANIC; PHOBIA; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SAMPLE; VALIDITY;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AGORAPHOBIA; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANIC DISORDER; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 34247509149     PISSN: 08876185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2006.08.002     Document Type: Article

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