TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessment of Disgust Sensitivity in Children With an Age-Downward Version of the Disgust Emotion Scale
AU - Muris, Peter
AU - Huijding, Jorg
AU - Mayer, Birgit
AU - Langkamp, Marit
AU - Reyhan, Ela
AU - Olatunji, Bunmi
PY - 2012/12
Y1 - 2012/12
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Assessment
KW - Children
KW - Disgust sensitivity
KW - Fear and anxiety symptoms
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84867203106&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.beth.2012.03.002
DO - 10.1016/j.beth.2012.03.002
M3 - Article
C2 - 23046788
AN - SCOPUS:84867203106
SN - 0005-7894
VL - 43
SP - 876
EP - 886
JO - Behavior Therapy
JF - Behavior Therapy
IS - 4
ER -