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

Psychological Medicine · 2001 · Vol. 31(6) · pp. 1025–1035

David M. Fresco✉(New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute)Meredith E. Coles(University of California, San Diego)Richard G. Heimberg(Columbia University)Michael R. Liebowitz(Columbia University)Sarah Hami(Adult Anxiety Clinic of Temple)Murray B. Stein(New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute)Deborah Goetz(New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute)

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Abstract

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.

Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentSocial anxietyClinical psychologyDiscriminant validityAnxietyRating scaleMedicinePsychologyPsychometricsPsychiatryDevelopmental psychology

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AdultAnxiety DisordersDepressionFemaleHumansMalePhobic DisordersPsychiatric Status Rating ScalesPsychometricsSurveys and QuestionnairesRandom AllocationSelf-AssessmentReproducibility of Results

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Development and validation of measures of social phobia scrutiny fear and social interaction anxiety11Editor’s note: This article was written before the development of some contemporary measures of social phobia, such as the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory (Turner et al., 1989). We have invited this article for publication because of the growing interest in the scales described therein. S.T.