Relationships among measures of fear and anxiety for snake phobics.

Examined the relationships between various measures of fear for snake phobic Ss. 107 female undergraduates reporting high degrees of fear for snakes were given the Fear Survey Schedule, the Bendig Emotionality Scale, the MA scale, the Lang Snake Questionnaire, the Endler Stimulus Situation-Response Inventory of Anxiousness, Nawas' Behavioral Avoidance Test, and the Walk Fear Thermometer. 25 Ss who were unable to touch the snake also completed Welsh's A scale. 2 factors were extracted which accounted for 61% of the total variance: (a) generalized and pervasive anxiety, and (b) specific fears. A correlation matrix of results is presented. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)