Reliabilität und Validität dreier Instrumente zur Messung von Angst vor Spinnen

Abstract

Zusammenfassung. Es wird über die Gütekriterien und Faktorenstrukturen dreier Instrumente zur Messung von Angst vor Spinnen berichtet. Der “Spinnenphobie-Fragebogen (SPF)“ und der “Fragebogen zur Angst vor Spinnen (FAS)“ sind Übersetzungen englischsprachiger, mehrfaktorieller Fragebögen. Beim “Spinnenangst-Screening (SAS)“ handelt es sich um eine Neuentwicklung mit nur vier Items zum möglichst ökonomischen Screening großer Stichproben. Alle drei Instrumente zeigten gute bis sehr gute Reliabilitätswerte, sowohl bezüglich der internen Konsistenz als auch der Retest-Reliabilität. Auch die Konstruktvaliditäten und die Kriteriumsvaliditäten erwiesen sich als sehr gut. Verwendungsempfehlungen für das Screening und die beiden Fragebögen werden gegeben.

Approach and avoidance in fear of spiders

“…For spider-free pictures, in contrast, only a main effect of response direction was observed, such that pushing responses were generally faster than pulling responses (774 vs. 824 ms, F(1,43) ¼ 13.4; p ¼ 0.001; Z 2 ¼ 0.24). To validate the observed compatibility effects, we related them to a direct measure of spider fear, the German version of the FSQ (Rinck et al, 2002) and to fear-related behavior, namely approach speed in a BAT. The compatibility effect for spider pictures (on average, À79 ms for SFs and +15 ms for NACs) was correlated with FSQ scores (r ¼ À0.41, p ¼ 0.005), and with approach speed (r ¼ 0.48, p ¼ 0.001).…”

“…Moreover, we validated the observed compatibility effects by relating them to a direct measure of spider fear (the German version of the Fear of Spiders Questionnaire (FSQ); Rinck et al, 2002) and to fear-related behavior, namely, approach speed in a behavioral assessment test (BAT), in which participants were asked to approach a large living spider. Most importantly, we wanted to find out whether the compatibility effects would predict fear-related behavior independently of the questionnaire, such that the correlation of compatibility effects and BAT scores would remain significant, even after partialing out the correlation of FSQ and BAT scores.…”

“…Participants with SAS scores lower than 5 or higher than 15 (i.e., with very low or high fear of spiders) were invited for further interviews and testing. Before the experiment, these potential participants completed the German version of the FSQ (Rinck et al, 2002). Moreover, participants were questioned by trained interviewers (clinical psychologists under supervision of the second author), using the F-DIPS (Margraf, Schneider, Soeder, Neumer, & Becker, 1996).…”

“…Participants were recruited after screenings in classes at several departments of Dresden University of Technology, using the German SAS (Rinck et al, 2002). Participants with SAS scores lower than 5 or higher than 15 (i.e., with very low or high fear of spiders) were invited for further interviews and testing.…”

One-session computer-based exposure treatment for spider-fearful individuals – Efficacy of a minimal self-help intervention in a randomised controlled trial

“…Two hundred and twenty participants were recruited after screening in classes at several departments of the University of Basel using the German-language Spider Anxiety Screening (SAS, Rinck et al, 2002). The SAS is a four-item questionnaire designed for efficient screenings of spider-fearful individuals in large samples.…”