Gender bias in the sixteen-item Anxiety Sensitivity Index: An application of polytomous differential item functioning

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 256-259

  Van Dam, Nicholas T ^a   Earleywine, Mitch ^a   Forsyth, John P ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Anxiety sensitivity; Differential item functioning

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREJUDICE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58849091316     PISSN: 08876185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2008.07.008     Document Type: Article

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