Latent Structure of Anxiety: Taxometric Exploration

Autor/inn/en	Kotov, Roman; Schmidt, Norman B.; Lerew, Darin R.; Joiner, Thomas E.; Ialongo, Nicholas S.
Titel	Latent Structure of Anxiety: Taxometric Exploration
Quelle	In: Psychological Assessment, 17 (2005) 3, S.369-374 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1040-3590
Schlagwörter	Cognitive Style; Validity; Anxiety; Factor Structure; Classification; Psychometrics; Psychopathology; Psychological Patterns + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Cognitive styles; Kognitiver Stil; Gültigkeit; Angst; Faktorenstruktur; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Psychometry; Psychometrie; Psychopathologie
Abstract	Taxometrics is a statistical tool that can be used to discern categories from continua. Taxometric analyses (MAXCOV and MAXEIG) were conducted in a large nonclinical sample (N=1,215) to determine whether extreme anxiety forms a distinct psychopathological category, an anxiety taxon. Anxiety was operationalized with self-report measures of subjective anxiety, anxious cognitive style, physiological arousal, and anxiety-related impairment. Procedures consistently identified a taxon with a prevalence of approximately 11%. Examination of the taxon's convergent and discriminant validity revealed that it reflects general distress rather than physiological arousal. Taxon membership showed some evidence of incremental validity. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10