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Interpersonal Fears among Patients with Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 May 2006

Asle Hoffart ,
Ann Hackmann  and
Harold Sexton
Asle Hoffart
Affiliation:
Research Institute, Modum Bad, Norway
Ann Hackmann
Affiliation:
University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, UK
Harold Sexton
Affiliation:
UNN-Åsgard Hospital, Tromsoe, Norway
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Abstract

To study the role of catastrophic interpersonal cognitions in panic disorder with or without agoraphobia, a questionnaire listing such items – the Interpersonal Panic Fear Questionnaire (IPFQ) – was constructed and administered to English and Norwegian samples. The results of the factor analysis indicated a three-factor structure of interpersonal fears: fear of negative evaluation, fear of being trapped and separated from safe persons and places, and fear of being neglected. The corresponding three IPFQ scales had satisfactory internal consistency and sensitivity to change following therapeutic intervention, discriminated well between diagnostic groups, and correlated moderately with measures of other dimensions of panic disorder and agoraphobia. The construct validity of the interpersonal fears was further supported by mostly significant relationships between the IPFQ scales and a measure of agoraphobic avoidance, when the contribution of intrapersonal (physical, loss of control) fears was controlled.

Keywords

Panic disorder with agoraphobiainterpersonal fearsmeasurement
Type
Research Article
Information
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 34 , Issue 3 , July 2006 , pp. 359 - 363
Copyright
2006 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies

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An extended version and a copy of the instrument (IPFQ) are also available online in the table of contents for this issue: http://journals.cambridge.org/jid_BCP.
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