Fear Questionnaire

The Fear Questionaire ( FQ ) is an English-language questionnaire for self- assessment of anxiety symptoms and has been translated into German under the title Angstfragebogen ( AF ). The S3 guideline for anxiety disorders recommends the questionnaire to determine the severity of specific phobias . An analysis by Marks and Mathews revealed three phobic factors: agoraphobia , social anxiety and fear of injury, and an anxiety-depression factor. The questionnaire should therefore contain typical agoraphobic situations, social fears and fears of injury. The English version is from Marks and Mathews from 1979. The German version is from Heinrichs (2003) and Klaann, Hahlweg and Heinrichs (2003). The questionnaire consists of several parts. In the first part, the interviewee should state what he is afraid of, although this question is missing in the German translation. In the second part, 15 questions follow, in which concrete situations are described and the respondent should indicate on an eight-point scale how much he avoids these situations. The third part consists of five questions about the level of suffering and the impairment caused by anxious and depressive feelings and thoughts. The fourth part consists of a question of how strong the current fear is on an eight-point scale.

Individual evidence

↑ Jürgen Margraf, Silvia Schneider: Textbook of behavior therapy: Volume 1: Basics, diagnostics, procedures, framework conditions . Springer Science & Business Media, 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-79540-7 , pp. 370 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
↑ Borwin Bandelow, Georg W. Alpers, Cord Benecke, Manfred E. Beutel, Jürgen Deckert, Annegret Eckhardt-Henn, Christian Ehrig, Kerstin Engel, Peter Falkai, Franziska Geiser, Alexander L. Gerlach, Stephan Hau, Timo Harfst, Peter Joraschky , Michael Kellner, Volker Köllner, Gernot Langs, Thomas Lichte, Heinz Liebeck, Jürgen Matzat, Markus Reitt, Sebastian Rudolf, Heinrich Peter Rüddel, Gerhard Schick, Ulrich Schweiger, Regine Simon, Andreas Ströhle, Anne Springer, Hermann Staats, Walter Ströhm, Benedikt Waldherr, Birgit Watzke, Dirk Wedekind, Jörg Wiltink, Christian Zottl, Peter Michael Zwanzger: S3 guidelines for the treatment of anxiety disorders . Ed .: Working Group of Scientific Medical Societies [AWMF]. 2014, p. 51 ( awmf.org [PDF]).
↑ Borwin Bandelow, Thomas Lichte, Sebastian Rudolf, Jörg Wiltink, Manfred Beutel: S3 guideline for anxiety disorders . Ed .: Borwin Bandelow, Thomas Lichte, Sebastian Rudolf, Jörg Wiltink, Manfred Beutel. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-662-44135-0 , Diagnostik, p. 53–57 , here p. 57 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-662-44136-7_4 ( awmf.org [PDF]).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Jürgen Hoyer, Jürgen Margraf: Anxiety diagnosis: Basics and test procedures . Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-18976-0 , pp. 105 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
^ ^A ^b Nina Heinrichs, Georg W. Alpers, Alexander L. Gerlach: Evidence-based guideline for the psychotherapy of panic disorder and agoraphobia . Hogrefe Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8409-2074-5 , pp. 27 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[1] Jürgen Margraf, Silvia Schneider: Textbook of behavior therapy: Volume 1: Basics, diagnostics, procedures, framework conditions . Springer Science & Business Media, 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-79540-7 , pp. 370 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[2] Borwin Bandelow, Georg W. Alpers, Cord Benecke, Manfred E. Beutel, Jürgen Deckert, Annegret Eckhardt-Henn, Christian Ehrig, Kerstin Engel, Peter Falkai, Franziska Geiser, Alexander L. Gerlach, Stephan Hau, Timo Harfst, Peter Joraschky , Michael Kellner, Volker Köllner, Gernot Langs, Thomas Lichte, Heinz Liebeck, Jürgen Matzat, Markus Reitt, Sebastian Rudolf, Heinrich Peter Rüddel, Gerhard Schick, Ulrich Schweiger, Regine Simon, Andreas Ströhle, Anne Springer, Hermann Staats, Walter Ströhm, Benedikt Waldherr, Birgit Watzke, Dirk Wedekind, Jörg Wiltink, Christian Zottl, Peter Michael Zwanzger: S3 guidelines for the treatment of anxiety disorders . Ed .: Working Group of Scientific Medical Societies [AWMF]. 2014, p. 51 ( awmf.org [PDF]).

[3] Borwin Bandelow, Thomas Lichte, Sebastian Rudolf, Jörg Wiltink, Manfred Beutel: S3 guideline for anxiety disorders . Ed .: Borwin Bandelow, Thomas Lichte, Sebastian Rudolf, Jörg Wiltink, Manfred Beutel. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-662-44135-0 , Diagnostik, p. 53–57 , here p. 57 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-662-44136-7_4 ( awmf.org [PDF]).

[Grundlagen-4] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Jürgen Hoyer, Jürgen Margraf: Anxiety diagnosis: Basics and test procedures . Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-18976-0 , pp. 105 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[Leitlinie-5] A ^b Nina Heinrichs, Georg W. Alpers, Alexander L. Gerlach: Evidence-based guideline for the psychotherapy of panic disorder and agoraphobia . Hogrefe Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8409-2074-5 , pp. 27 ( limited preview in Google Book search).