Correlates .89 with Welsh Anxiety, .87 with Dependency, and .81 with Wiggins Depression. It's basic to neurosis, i.e. anxiety and depression. Anxieties, or specific fears of animals, things or situations. Not admitting to multiple fears or phobias. Correlates .68 with Dependency,.67 with D-O, and .66 with Psychasthenia.
Phobias are very specific.
One phobia warrants the diagnosis. Phobias are better assessed through critical items. This is a very important scale of severe psychopathology. It is a combination of scales 6 and 8. High scorers are at least borderline, if not psychotic.