Social Anxiousness: The Construct and Its Measurement
- 1 February 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Personality Assessment
- Vol. 47 (1), 66-75
- https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327752jpa4701_8
Abstract
The self-report measures of social anxiety that are commonly used in social psychological and personality research confound the measurement of social anxiousness with the measurement of specific behaviors that often, but not always, accompany social anxiety. Theoretical and methodological issues regarding this problem are discussed, and two new scales are presented that measure interaction and audience anxiousness independent of specific social behaviors. Psychometric data show the scales to possess high internal consistency and test-retest reliability, as well as strong evidence of construct and criterion validity.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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