Abstract
Fifty-six subjects who were afraid of driving were recruited by advertisement and compated to 31 controls without this fear. Subjects were interviewed and given several questionnaires to gather information for making DSM-III-R diagnoses and to determine their agoraphobic aviodance behavior, driving history, and the history of their phobias. The results to be concluded from this study are that many driving phobics do not fit neatly into current DSM-III-R anxiety disorder categories, because they combine characteristics of Simple Phobia and Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia without meeting the criteria of either disorder.