The Phobia Questionnaire (PHQ)

The Phobia Questionnaire is a 15-item questionnaire used to measure a person’s avoidance to a particular object or situation as a factor of fear. The PHQ yields one Total Phobia Score and three scale scores, the Agoraphobia score, the Blood-Injury Phobia score, and the Social Phobia score.

Item Coding

The PHQ consists of 15 items that are rated on an 8-point Likert scale as follows:

 

Would not avoid it

 

Slightly avoid it

 

Definitely avoid it

 

Markedly avoid it

 

Always avoid it

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

 

Scales

The PHQ yields one total score and three scale scores.  Description of the scales and item loadings are listed below.  Scale scores are calculated as the sum of respective items.  No items are reverse scored.

 

Scale Name (Abbr.)

Description

Item loadings

Total Phobia Score (PHQ_TOT)

 

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15

Agoraphobia Score (PHQ_AGO)

 

4,5,7,11,14

Blood-Injury Phobia Score (PHQ_BLD)

 

1,3,9,12,15

Social Phobia Score (PHQ_SOC)

 

2,6,8,10,13

 

Resource Files

·       Questionnaire

·       CIDA Item file

·       CIDA Scoring file

References

Marks, I. M., & Matthews, A. M. (1979). Brief standard self-rating for phobic patients. Behavior Research & Therapy, 17, 263-267.

Created by Jacky Diaz

Updated 3/3/02