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BEHAVIOUR RESEARCH AND THERAPY
Volume 40, Issue 6, Pages 701-715Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-7967(01)00060-2
Keywords
social phobia; rating scales; reliability; validity; sensitivity
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- NIMH NIH HHS [MH-57326] Funding Source: Medline
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The Liebowitz social anxiety scale (LSAS) is a commonly used clinician-administered instrument. The present study reports on the properties of a self-report version of the LSAS (LSAS-SR). About 175 participants diagnosed with social phobia participated in the study. The LSAS-SR showed overall good psychometric properties as indicated by the results of test-retest reliability, internal consistency, and convergent and discriminant validity. Furthermore, the scale was sensitive to treatment change. The construct validity of the LSAS-SR, however, remains to be further explored. These findings support the utility of the LSAS-SR, which has the advantage of saving valuable clinician time compared to the clinician-administered version. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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