The Multidimensional Nature and Multicultural Validity of a New Measure of Social Anxiety: The Social Anxiety Questionnaire for Adults
| Autor: | Isabel Cristina Salazar Torres, René Landero, Stefan Hofmann, BENITO ARIAS, Goñi-Sarriés Adriana, Rodrigo Teixeira Lopes, Francisco Dos Santos Cardoso, Vicente Caballo, Ricardo Barroso, Maria Jesús Irurtia, CARMEM BEATRIZ NEUFELD, Eugénia Ribeiro |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Adult
Cross-Cultural Comparison Male Adolescent Psychometrics media_common.quotation_subject Anxiety Shyness Phobic disorder Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans Aged media_common Perspective (graphical) Social anxiety Reproducibility of Results Middle Aged Cross-cultural studies Clinical Psychology Phobic Disorders Multiculturalism Female medicine.symptom Psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Behavior Therapy. 43:313-328 |
| ISSN: | 0005-7894 |
| Popis: | Much has been written about the situations most often feared by persons with social phobia, and several self-report measures are frequently used to assess such feared situations. However, it is not clear whether the situations feared by persons with social phobia form unidimensional or multidimensional factors. If these situations are multidimensional, reliance on a total score of feared situations would not reflect important differences between those dimensions. This research examined the multidimensional nature and multicultural validity of a newly developed instrument (the Social Anxiety Questionnaire for Adults [SAQ-A]) in two studies with a total of 539 patients diagnosed with social phobia and 15,753 nonpatients from 20 different countries. The structure (five clear and solid factors) and psychometric properties of the final instrument (the SAQ-A30) support the multidimensional nature of social anxiety and provide a new perspective in the assessment of social phobia. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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