Assessment of Disgust Sensitivity in Children with an Age-Downward Version of the Disgust Emotion Scale

Autor/inn/en	Muris, Peter; Huijding, Jorg; Mayer, Birgit; Langkamp, Marit; Reyhan, Ela; Olatunji, Bunmi
Titel	Assessment of Disgust Sensitivity in Children with an Age-Downward Version of the Disgust Emotion Scale
Quelle	In: Behavior Therapy, 43 (2012) 4, S.876-886 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0005-7894
DOI	10.1016/j.beth.2012.03.002
Schlagwörter	Factor Analysis; Measures (Individuals); Anxiety; Etiology; Psychometrics; Predictive Validity; Emotional Response; Children; Food; Olfactory Perception; Death; Animals; Reliability; Correlation; Parent Child Relationship; Fear; Role; Maintenance + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Faktorenanalyse; Messdaten; Angst; Ätiologie; Psychometry; Psychometrie; Emotionales Verhalten; Child; Kind; Kinder; Lebensmittel; Sterbefall; Tod; Todesfall; Animal; Tier; Tiere; Reliabilität; Korrelation; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Furcht; Rollen
Abstract	The present study examined the psychometric properties of the Disgust Emotion Scale for Children (DES-C). Principal components analysis of the DES-C data revealed five factors reflecting disgust toward (a) rotting foods, (b) injection and blood, (c) odors, (d) mutilation and death, and (e) animals, which were largely in keeping with the intended subscales. The DES-C showed good reliability, excellent convergent validity (as established by correlations with an alternative self-report index of disgust), fairly good predictive validity (as assessed by correlations with measures of fear/anxiety and a behavioral index of disgust), and acceptable parent-child agreement (in particular with the mothers). Importantly, the DES-C proved to perform better on some psychometric indicators than an age-downward version of the Disgust Scale. These findings indicate that the DES-C should be regarded as the preferred scale for measuring disgust sensitivity and its role in the etiology and maintenance of anxiety problems in children. (Contains 5 tables.) (As Provided).
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