开发和初步验证一个开放的在线行为回避测试 (BAT) 对蜘蛛恐惧
Markus Grill1, Martin Heller2, Anke Haberkamp1
1Department of Clinical Psychology, Philipps-University Marburg.
Psychological assessment
|May 2, 2024
概括
一个新的在线行为回避测试 (vBATon) 有效地测量了蜘蛛的恐惧,焦虑和厌恶,与现实生活测试的准确性相匹配. 该工具为研究和临床实践提供了一个标准化,用户友好的替代方案.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 临床心理学 临床心理学
- 行为科学 行为科学
背景情况:
- 行为回避测试 (BAT) 通过测量回避行为来评估恐惧至关重要.
- 在BAT协议的变化阻碍了结果的可比性,需要广泛的研究人员准备.
- 为了解决这些局限性,开发了一个开放访问的在线版本,vBATon.
研究的目的:
- 为了验证在线行为回避测试 (vBATon) 在测量回避行为,焦虑和厌恶方面的有效性.
- 将vBATon的性能与现实生活中的BAT (rl-BAT) 进行比较.
- 通过将vBATon的结果与rl-BAT和蜘蛛恐惧的自我报告测量结果相关联来评估vBATon的有效性.
主要方法:
- 害怕蜘蛛的人和不害怕蜘蛛的人 (N=62) 在一周内完成了rl-BAT和vBATon.
- 用同等性测试来比较vBATon和rl-BAT的结果.
- 分析了vBATon,rl-BAT和已建立的蜘蛛恐惧问卷之间的相关性.
主要成果:
- rl-BAT和vBATon都成功地区分了害怕蜘蛛的人和不害怕蜘蛛的人.
- 相当性测试证实vBATon在捕捉回避,焦虑和厌恶方面具有与rl-BAT相似的性能.
- vBATon与rl-BAT和自我报告的蜘蛛恐惧指标显示了中等到高的相关性.
结论:
- vBATon为测量蜘蛛恐惧提供了作为标准化,高效和用户友好的工具有效性的初步证据.
- 在线测试是传统rl-BATs的可行的替代方案,用于研究和临床应用.
- vBATon促进了对恐惧回避行为的更容易获得和可比的评估.
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