Clinical: mood, anxiety and stress

Fear Questionnaire (Marks-Mathews).

What it measures: Phobic avoidance across three subscales (agoraphobia, blood-injury phobia, social phobia) plus a global phobia item and an anxiety-depression item; an outcome measure for phobia treatment
Length and format: 24 (15 phobia-avoidance items across 3 subscales + global + 5 associated-distress). 9-point avoidance scale (0-8) per phobic situation; subscale and total phobia scores (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions: Many languages incl. FR, ES, DE, IT, NL, PT and others
Normative data: No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence: public-domain / open
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Reference: Marks, I. M., & Mathews, A. M. (1979). Brief standard self-rating for phobic patients. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 17(3), 263-267.

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