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Measuring anxiety: are we getting what we need?
Author(s) -
Balon Richard
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
depression and anxiety
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.634
H-Index - 129
eISSN - 1520-6394
pISSN - 1091-4269
DOI - 10.1002/da.20077
Subject(s) - psychology , social anxiety , anxiety , checklist , clinical psychology , rating scale , scale (ratio) , psychometrics , anxiety disorder , psychiatry , developmental psychology , physics , quantum mechanics , cognitive psychology
This article discusses several studies describing either the reevaluation and validation of existing scales for measuring anxiety (i.e., the Spielberger Trait Anxiety Inventory, the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale for adults and for children and adolescents, the Clinical Global Impression Scale, the Self‐Rating Inventory for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and the Yale‐Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale Symptom Checklist), or the development and validation of new scales (i.e., the Social Thoughts and Beliefs Scale, the Social Phobia Diagnostic Questionnaire, the Aberdeen Trauma Screening Index and the Health Anxiety Inventory). As an increasing number of rating scales have been developed over the past several years, a critical review of their usefulness and psychometric properties seems pertinent and prudent. Depression and Anxiety 22:1–10, 2005 . © 2005 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.