Optimal Cut-Off Score of Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory-Brief Form
| Autor: | Deborah C. Beidel, Lourdes Espinosa-Fernández, Jose-Antonio Muela-Martinez, Luis-Joaquin Garcia-Lopez |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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050103 clinical psychology
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| Zdroj: | European Journal of Psychological Assessment. 34:278-282 |
| ISSN: | 2151-2426 1015-5759 |
| DOI: | 10.1027/1015-5759/a000324 |
| Popis: | Abstract. No cut-off scores for the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory-Brief (SPAI-B) are available to screen for young adults with and without social anxiety disorder (SAD). In addition, there is a currently heated debate on the utility of the performance-only specifier in DSM-5. The present study is aimed at covering these gaps. Participants included 124 young adults in higher education with a clinical diagnosis of SAD and 81 healthy controls. The SPAI-B scores revealed a continuum of severity among the nonclinical population, performance-only specifier participants, and those with both performance and social interactional fears. Data suggested to use a rounded cut-off of 24 to screen for patients with both performance and interactional fears, and a rounded cut-off score of 23 for young adults with performance-only specifier. Findings demonstrated that the SPAI-B is particularly useful as a screening measure among young adults in higher education, but the limited discriminative capacity of the performance-only specifier may call into question the clinical utility of this recently established specifier. |
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