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  • Development of the Response to Fearful Situations Scale

  • Katherine A. McDermott, Kristin Fitch, Kirsten H. Dillon, Nora E. Mueller, Corinne N. Carlton, Norman B. Schmidt, Jesse R. Cougle
  • Journal:
    Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy / Volume 48 / Issue 6 / November 2020
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    28 July 2020, pp. 688-704
    Print publication:
    November 2020
  • Background:

    Most measures of anxious avoidance are limited to disorder-specific mechanisms and ignore the measurement of courage/approach responding in confronting fearful situations.

    Aims:

    The purpose of the present study was to construct and validate a self-report assessment of the tendency towards avoidant or approach responding in fearful situations, the Response to Fearful Situations Scale (RFSS).

    Method and Results:

    In Study 1 (n = 241), exploratory factor analysis resulted in two factors, avoidance and approach. Study 2 (n = 423) replicated the two-factor structure and established test–re-test reliability. In Study 3 (n = 44), the RFSS demonstrated predictive validity on a behavioural avoidance task. In Studies 4 (n = 253) and 5 (n = 256), the RFSS was associated with clinical symptoms above existing measures of avoidance.

    Discussion:

    These results validate the use of the RFSS as a transdiagnostic measure of avoidance and approach.