Assessment of disgust sensitivity in children with an age-downward version of the disgust emotion scale

摘要: The present study examined the psychometric properties of Disgust Emotion Scale for Children (DES-C). Principal components analysis DES-C data revealed five factors reflecting disgust toward (a) rotting foods, (b) injection and blood, (c) odors, (d) mutilation death, (e) animals, which were largely in keeping with intended subscales. showed good reliability, excellent convergent validity (as established by correlations an alternative self-report index disgust), fairly predictive assessed measures fear/anxiety a behavioral acceptable parent-child agreement (in particular mothers). Importantly, proved to perform better on some indicators than age-downward version Scale. These findings indicate that should be regarded as preferred scale measuring sensitivity its role etiology maintenance anxiety problems children.