@article{ref1,
title="Fearing future terrorism: development, validation, and psychometric testing of the Terrorism Catastrophizing Scale (TCS)",
journal="Traumatology",
year="2007",
author="Sinclair, Samuel J. and LoCicero, Alice",
volume="13",
number="4",
pages="75-90",
abstract="The purpose of this study was to develop a new tool, the Terrorism Catastrophizing Scale (TCS), rooted in terror management theory (TMT) and cognitive-behavioral theory (CBT). Participants were adults sampled from the general U.S. population (N = 503) using internet-based methods. Psychometric analysis indicates a 13-item version of the TCS, measuring three constructs (Rumination, Magnification, and Helplessness), met all tests of scaling assumptions and generally fit a 3-factor model using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA; CFI = 0.96; TLI = 0.98), where CFI is the comparative fit index and TLI is the Tucker-Lewis index. <br><br>RESULTS also indicate that self-esteem and social connected-ness are negatively associated (P <.0001) with terrorism catastrophizing, as TMT would assume. Finally, terrorism catastrophizing is a significant predictor (P <.0001) of behavioral change and of symptoms of anxiety, depression, and physiological stress, as CBT would maintain. The implications and limitations of this study are discussed.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1534-7656",
doi="10.1177/1534765607309962",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1534765607309962"
}