A Factorial Resolution of Psychometric Measures of Anxiety
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13677128 |
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| Authors | Mary T Spence (Texas Technological College, corresponding author), Arthur B Sweney (Texas Technological College) |
| Year | 1966 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 3_suppl |
| Pages | 1178-1178 |
| Publication date | 1966-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychological Reports (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2466/pr0.1966.19.3f.1178 |
| PMID | 5956403 |
| OpenAlex | W2028442389 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
The measurement of anxiety by means of psychometric instruments has tended to yield reliable and replicable measures which are disappointingly unrelated to clinical problems. Taylor (1953) recognized that her MAS scale assessed manifest anxiety. Cattell (1956) and his associates have consistently found a second-order anxiety factor composed of five scales from the 16 PF. Welsh (1956) factored the scored items on the MMPI and found that the largest factor (A) could be identified with expressed anxiety. Barton's Ego Strength (BES) and Byrne's (1961) Repression-Sensitization (R-S) scales have also been recognized to be specialized anxiety scales. In efforts to resolve this problem, Sweney (1962) developed the Fear-Anxiety Profile (FAP) which utilizes behavioral operations for measuring the security drive. Measurements of dread, repression, familiarity, and word association are related to 12 areas of basic chreat. Sweney (1961 ) , summarizing previous motivational research, suggested that the measures of dread and repression seemed to reflect unanchored anxiety and those of familiarity and word association measured fear or possibly manifest anxiety. In this study all of the instruments listed were administered to 116 psychometrically naive college students. The scores were correlated and from the matrix 19 centroid factors were extracted. These were rotated by means of a normalized varirnax to an optimal orthogonal solution. The first two centroids supported the hypothesis that manifest anxiety and unanchored anxiety are independent. The 12 dread, 12 repression, and 12 familiarity variables from FAP loaded the unanchored factor. The manifest factor was loaded by the MAS, R-S, BES, and Cattell's C-, 0, L, Q3-, and Q4 but also by the 12 dread variables and by 12 negative repression or vigilance variables. It can be seen that in unanchored anxiety dread is accompanied by repression and in manifest anxiety it is associated with vigilance
Anxiety · Association (psychology · Developmental psychology · Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory · Personality · Psychiatry · Psychotherapist · Clinical Psychology · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being · Psychology · Resilience and Mental Health · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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