Frequency of social phobia and psychometric properties of the Liebowitz social anxiety scale in Parkinson's disease

Zusammenfassung Ziel der Studie Bei der Untersuchung von sozialer Ängstlichkeit haben sich die Fragebögen Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS) und das Social Phobia-Inventory (SPIN) etabliert. Außerdem wird zum Screening sozialer Ängstlichkeit häufig die Subskala Unsicherheit im Sozialkontakt des Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI-53) eingesetzt. Alle drei Skalen geben vor dasselbe Konstrukt zu erfassen. Somit stellt sich die Frage der Konvergenz dieser Skalen. Um Forschungsergebnisse zu sozialer Ängstlichkeit, welche diese Instrumente nutzen, über einen fragebogenübergreifenden Faktor (Common-Faktor) vergleichbar zu machen, wird in der vorliegenden Studie ein Item Response Theorie (IRT) Linking Ansatz verwendet. Methodik 64 deutschsprachige psychiatrische Patienten und 295 Probanden aus der deutschen Normalbevölkerung füllten die drei Fragebögen aus. Verschiedene IRT-Modelle – darunter Graded Response Modelle (GRM) – wurden an die Daten angepasst und verglichen. Basierend auf dem Modell mit dem besten Fit wurden Regressionsanalysen durchgeführt. Der Common-Faktor wurde dabei jeweils von den Fragebogensummenwerten vorhergesagt. Ergebnisse Der Zusammenhang zwischen den verschiedenen Skalen wird am besten durch ein Bi-Faktor GRM erklärt (RMSEA=0,036; CFI=0,977; WRMR=1,061). Anhand der Ergebnisse der Regressionsanalysen lassen sich drei Gleichungen zur Transformation von Fragebogensummenwerten ableiten. Schlussfolgerung Durch den IRT Linking Ansatz konnte ein fragebogenübergreifender genereller Faktor Sozialer Ängstlichkeit abgeleitet werden. Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede wurden dabei berücksichtigt. Dies hat sowohl für die Forschung als auch für die Praxis Vorteile. Eine Replikation dieser Studie sowie die Implementierung weiterer Instrumente wird empfohlen, um die Gültigkeit dieses Ansatzes zu überprüfen und die Ergebnisse zu generalisieren.

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Self-report version of the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale: Psychometric properties of the French version.

Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science/Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement ◽

10.1037/a0026249 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 44 (2) ◽

pp. 99-107 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

Alexandre Heeren ◽

Pierre Maurage ◽

Mandy Rossignol ◽

Morgane Vanhaelen ◽

Virginie Peschard ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Anxiety ◽

Psychometric Properties ◽

Anxiety Scale ◽

Self Report ◽

French Version ◽

Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale

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Assessment of Social Anxiety in First Episode Psychosis using the Liebowitz Social Anxiety scale as a Self-report Measure

European Psychiatry ◽

10.1016/j.eurpsy.2010.08.014 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 115-121 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

K.L. Romm ◽

J.I. Rossberg ◽

A.O. Berg ◽

C.F. Hansen ◽

O.A. Andreassen ◽

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Keyword(s):

Factor Analysis ◽

Social Anxiety ◽

Psychometric Properties ◽

Patient Group ◽

Self Esteem ◽

First Episode Psychosis ◽

Anxiety Scale ◽

First Episode ◽

Episode Psychosis ◽

Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale

AbstractObjectiveSocial anxiety is a common problem in psychotic disorders. The Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale, Self-Rating version (LSAS-SR) is a widely used instrument to capture different aspects of social anxiety, but its psychometric properties have not been tested in this patient group. The aims of the present study were to evaluate the psychometric properties of the LSAS-SR in patients with first episode psychosis, to investigate whether it differentiated between active and passive social withdrawal and to test which clinical factors contributed to current level of social anxiety.MethodA total of 144 first episode psychosis patients from the ongoing Thematically Organized Psychosis (TOP) study were included at the time of first treatment. Diagnoses were set according to the Structured Clinical Interview (SCID-1) for DSM-IV. A factor analysis was carried out and the relationship of social anxiety to psychotic and general symptomatology measured by the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) was evaluated. Possible contributors to social anxiety were analyzed using multiple hierarchic regression analysis.ResultsThe factor analysis identified three subscales: public performance, social interaction and observation. All three subscales showed satisfactory psychometric properties, acceptable convergent and discriminate properties, and confirmed previous findings in social anxiety samples. Self-esteem explained a significant amount of the variance in social anxiety, even after adjusting for the effects of delusions, suspiciousness and depression.ConclusionThe study shows that the LSAS-SR can be used in this patient group, that social anxiety is strongly related to both behavioral social avoidance and to self-esteem. The results support the use of this measure in assessment of social anxiety in both clinical settings and in research.

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Psychometric properties of the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale

Psychological Medicine ◽

10.1017/s0033291798007879 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 29 (1) ◽

pp. 199-212 ◽

Cited By ~ 441

Author(s):

R. G. HEIMBERG ◽

K. J. HORNER ◽

H. R. JUSTER ◽

S. A. SAFREN ◽

E. J. BROWN ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Anxiety ◽

Social Phobia ◽

Convergent Validity ◽

Anxiety Scale ◽

Clinical Samples ◽

Pharmacological Treatments ◽

Double Blind ◽

Excellent Internal Consistency ◽

Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale ◽

Treatment Sensitivity

Background. The present study provides data on the reliability, validity and treatment sensitivity of the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS), one of the most commonly used clinician-administered scales for the assessment of social phobia.Method. Three hundred and eighty-two patients from several studies of the treatment of social phobia were evaluated. An independent assessor administered the LSAS to each patient prior to the initiation of treatment. Patients also completed other measures of social anxiety and avoidance, although the specific measures varied across samples.Results. The LSAS and its subscales were normally distributed and demonstrated excellent internal consistency. The convergent validity of the LSAS was demonstrated via significant correlations with other commonly-used measures of social anxiety and avoidance. These correlations also tended to be larger than correlations with measures of depression, especially after treatment. However, the pattern of correlations of LSAS subscales with one another and with the other measures suggest that the fear subscales and the avoidance subscales may not be sufficiently distinct in clinical samples. The LSAS was also demonstrated to be sensitive to the effects of pharmacological treatments of social phobia over time and in comparison to double-blind pill placebo.Conclusion. The LSAS appears to be a reliable, valid and treatment sensitive measure of social phobia. Further study of the LSAS, both in samples with severe social phobia and in community samples, is needed.

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Psychometric properties and three proposed subscales of a self-report version of the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale translated into Hebrew

Depression and Anxiety ◽

10.1002/da.10064 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 16 (4) ◽

pp. 143-151 ◽

Cited By ~ 41

Author(s):

Jennifer B. Levin ◽

Sofi Marom ◽

Shay Gur ◽

Daniel Wechter ◽

Haggai Hermesh

Keyword(s):

Social Anxiety ◽

Psychometric Properties ◽

Anxiety Scale ◽

Self Report ◽

Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale

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Establishing the Psychometric Properties of the Self-Report Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale for Children and Adolescents in a General Population Adolescent Sample

European Journal of Psychological Assessment ◽

10.1027/1015-5759/a000659 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-8

Author(s):

Eleanor Leigh ◽

David M. Clark

Keyword(s):

Social Anxiety ◽

Psychometric Properties ◽

Children And Adolescents ◽

Factor Structure ◽

Avoidance Performance ◽

Anxiety Scale ◽

The Self ◽

Self Report ◽

Language Version ◽

Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale

Abstract. The Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale for Children and Adolescents (LSAS-CA) is a valid and reliable clinician-administered measure of social anxiety symptoms in young people. It has been adapted for self-report completion, and although the psychometric properties of this version of the scale have been examined in Spanish, Hebrew, and French language versions, this has not yet been done for the English language version. In the present study, we examined the factor structure and psychometric properties of the self-report version of the scale (LSAS-CA-SR) in a sample of UK adolescents recruited from schools. The factor structure of the scale was determined in our sample of N = 829; a four-factor structure, with interaction anxiety, interaction avoidance, performance anxiety, and performance-avoidance subscales, provided the best fit to the data. Measurement invariance of the scale was demonstrated across age and gender. Psychometric properties of the scale were sound, with good internal consistency (.88–.97), acceptable test-retest reliability (.45–.57), and evidence for convergent and divergent validity.

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Psychometric properties of the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale in a large cross-cultural Spanish and Portuguese speaking sample

Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.1590/1516-4446-2018-0006 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 41 (2) ◽

pp. 122-130

Author(s):

Vicente E. Caballo ◽

Isabel C. Salazar ◽

Víctor Arias ◽

Stefan G. Hofmann ◽

Joshua Curtiss

Keyword(s):

Social Anxiety ◽

Psychometric Properties ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Anxiety Scale ◽

Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale

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Validity of the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS) Measurement Tool

JPPP - Jurnal Penelitian dan Pengukuran Psikologi ◽

10.21009/jppp.101.03 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 18-26

Author(s):

Beatrice Kalalo ◽

Celine Amanda Marlietama ◽

Graceveline Cristabel

Keyword(s):

Social Interaction ◽

Social Anxiety ◽

Social Phobia ◽

Beck Depression Inventory ◽

Anxiety Scale ◽

Measurement Tool ◽

Social Interaction Anxiety ◽

Social Interaction Anxiety Scale ◽

Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale ◽

Interaction Anxiety

Social phobia adalah ketakutan seseorang ketika beraktivitas di depan orang lain, seperti makan, minum, gemetar, memerah, berbicara, menulis atau muntah. Aktivitas ini merujuk kepada kecemasan dalam diri seseorang. Terdapat dua aspek yang dapat digunakan untuk mengidentifikasi kecemasan yaitu performance dan social. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji validasi alat ukur Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS). Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kuantitatif dengan kriteria subjek mahasiswa aktif strata 1 usia 17-25 tahun. Subjek penelitian berjumlah 177 mahasiswa dari berbagai perguruan tinggi di Indonesia. Data diperoleh melalui google form yang disebarkan secara online dan data diolah menggunakan aplikasi SPSS. Teknik sampling yang digunakan adalah accidental sampling sehingga subjek yang dibutuhkan adalah subjek yang memenuhi kriteria di atas. Validasi alat ukur pada penelitian ini menggunakan sumber bukti berdasarkan struktur internal dan korelasi dengan alat ukur lain (Beck Depression Inventory dan Social Interaction Anxiety Scale). Hasil yang diperoleh dari penelitian ini membuktikan bahwa alat ukur LSAS valid dan dapat digunakan untuk mengukur kecemasan sosial.

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The Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale: a comparison of the psychometric properties of self-report and clinician-administered formats

Psychological Medicine ◽

10.1017/s0033291701004056 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 31 (6) ◽

pp. 1025-1035 ◽

Cited By ~ 459

Author(s):

D. M. FRESCO ◽

M. E. COLES ◽

R. G. HEIMBERG ◽

M. R. LIEBOWITZ ◽

S. HAMI ◽

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Keyword(s):

Anxiety Disorder ◽

Social Anxiety ◽

Psychometric Properties ◽

Social Anxiety Disorder ◽

Discriminant Validity ◽

Subscale Score ◽

Primary Diagnosis ◽

Anxiety Scale ◽

Self Report ◽

Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale

Background. The clinician-administered version of the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS-CA) is a commonly used assessment device for the evaluation of social anxiety disorder and has been shown to have strong psychometric characteristics. Because of its apparently straightforward rating format and potential savings in time and effort, interest in the use of the LSAS as a self-report (LSAS-SR) measure has increased, and the LSAS-SR has been used in a number of studies. However, the psychometric properties of the LSAS-SR have not been well established.Methods. This study examined the psychometric properties of the LSAS-SR in comparison to the LSAS-CA in a sample of 99 individuals with a primary diagnosis of social anxiety disorder and 53 individuals with no current psychiatric disorder.Results. There was little difference between the two versions of the LSAS on any scale or subscale score. Both forms were internally consistent and the subscale intercorrelations for the two forms were essentially identical. Correlations of each LSAS-SR index with its LSAS-CA counterpart were all highly significant. Finally, the convergent and discriminant validity of the two forms of the LSAS was shown to be strong.Conclusion. Results of this study suggest that the self-report version of the LSAS compares well to the clinician-administered version and may be validly employed in the assessment of social anxiety disorder.

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