TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Fearing future terrorism: development, validation, and psychometric testing of the Terrorism Catastrophizing Scale (TCS)
JO  - Traumatology
A1  - Sinclair, Samuel J.
A1  - LoCicero, Alice
SP  - 75
EP  - 90
VL  - 13
IS  - 4
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1534-7656
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1534765607309962
ID  - ref1
ER  -