ABSTRACT

Background: Extant self-report measures of social anxiety primarily assess the breadth of social situations in which respondents feel anxious, rather than assessing severity in terms of the distress and impairment that individuals experience due to their social anxiety symptoms. This paper describes the development and validation of the Ryerson Social Anxiety Scales (RSAS; Rogojanski et al., 2019 Rogojanski, J. , Hood, H. K. , Vorstenbosch, V. , & Antony, M. M. (2019). Social Anxiety Severity Scale . Ryerson University. [Google Scholar]; see Appendix), a new measure for assessing both the breadth of situations that trigger social anxiety and the severity (i.e., distress and impairment) associated with social anxiety, across two studies.

Method/Design: Two samples of university students (N = 501 total) completed demographic and self-report symptom measures. In Study 1, participants completed the RSAS and several other measures of psychological symptoms. In Study 2, participants completed the same measures and were also assessed for the presence of Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) using a semistructured clinical interview.

Results: Across both samples, the RSAS demonstrated excellent internal consistency and incremental validity. It consistently emerged as a unique predictor of psychosocial impairment. In Study 2, increases in RSAS scores were associated with increased odds of having SAD.

Conclusions: The RSAS has robust psychometric properties and fills an important gap among available measures for assessing SAD severity.

摘要

背景：现有的社交焦虑自我报告测量主要评估受访者感到焦虑的社交情境的广度，而不是评估个人因社交焦虑症状而经历的痛苦和损害的严重程度。本文描述了瑞尔森社交焦虑量表(RSAS; Rogojanski et al., 2019)的开发和验证 Rogojanski, J. 、 Hood, HK 、 Vorstenbosch, V. 和 Antony, MM （2019 年）。社交焦虑严重程度量表。瑞尔森大学。 [谷歌学术] ; 见附录），这是一项新的衡量标准，用于评估触发社交焦虑的情况的广度和与社交焦虑相关的严重程度（即痛苦和损害），跨越两项研究。

方法/设计：两个大学生样本（ 总共N = 501）完成了人口统计和自我报告症状测量。在研究 1 中，参与者完成了 RSAS 和其他一些心理症状测量。在研究 2 中，参与者完成了相同的测量，并使用半结构化临床访谈评估了社交焦虑症 (SAD) 的存在。

结果：在两个样本中，RSAS 表现出出色的内部一致性和增量有效性。它一直是社会心理障碍的独特预测指标。在研究 2 中，RSAS 分数的增加与患 SAD 的几率增加有关。

结论： RSAS 具有强大的心理测量特性，并填补了评估 SAD 严重程度的可用措施之间的重要空白。