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Relationships between spider constructs in phobics
Author(s) -
Watts Fraser N.,
Sharrock Robert
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
british journal of medical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.102
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 2044-8341
pISSN - 0007-1129
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8341.1985.tb02627.x
Subject(s) - spider , psychology , psychoanalysis , zoology , biology
An index of tight construing was derived from a Kelly grid in which the elements were spiders. This index, the coefficient of concordance, corresponds to the average correlation between constructs. Concordance was significantly higher in spider phobics than controls, in line with the hypothesis that emotional disorders are associated with higher correlations between symptom‐related constructs (i.e. ‘tight’ construing). Desensitization, though it reduced phobic anxiety, had no effect on concordance.