Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, 4th edition. The spaic is a 26item, empirically derived selfreport inventory designed to assess a range of poten tially anxietyproducing situations e. Social phobia and anxiety inventory brief, abbreviated as spaib, is a spanish version of the social phobia and anxiety inventory. Pdf brief form of the social phobia and anxiety inventory spaib. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, 3rd ed.
Psychometric evaluation of the social phobia and anxiety. Spai18 social phobia and anxiety inventory short version. Social phobia and anxiety inventory for children spaic is an empirically derived inventory developed specifically to assess social phobia in childhood and early adolescence, as a screening scale 10. Validity of the social phobia and anxiety inventory. Social phobia usually starts during the child or teen years, usually at about age. Spaic social phobia and anxiety inventory for children. The social phobia and anxiety inventory for children spaic. In order to detect and thus, effectively treat social anxiety disorder in children, the use of reliable and valid assessment instruments is necessary. Pdf although social phobia is one of the most common mental disorders in adolescents, there are few reliable and valid assessment. The social phobia inventory abbreviated as spin is a 17item questionnaire developed by the psychiatry and behavioral sciences department at duke university. Fermented foods, neuroticism, and social anxiety an.
It evaluates the same psychological factors as spai related to cognition, behavior and somatic symptoms usually exhibited by persons with social anxiety. The primary treatment outcome measure was the social phobia and anxiety inventory spai score. The spaic was applied to a sample of 1588 children and adolescents with ages ranging from 10 to 17 years. Social anxiety social anxiety is an anxiety disorder where we believe that others will judge us negatively e. The social phobia and anxiety inventory for children spai. Pdf the objective of this study is to examine the factor structure and psychometric properties of the spai in a sample of adolescent spaniards.
Psychometric properties of the social phobia and anxiety. The spai is a 109item selfreport instrument that has been widely used to assess the. Discriminant validity of the social phobia and anxiety inventory spai, the social phobia scale sps and the social interaction anxiety scale sias. A psychological test measuring social anxiety levels.
The social phobia and anxiety inventory spai has been developed to assess. Since its first development, the spai has gone through a. The rating scale uses a 7point scoring system, ranging from never 1 to always 7. In 2007, robersonnay r et al published a shorter version, spai23 in english, for adults in 2008, garcialopez et al published a 16itemversion, spai16 in spanish, for adolescents. A program for the graphical analysis of multiple choice test and questionnaire data unpub lished manual. Although the social phobia and anxiety inventory assesses a. Social phobia and anxiety inventory for children spaic. At the time of its initial development during 1999, the authors were aware of no other clinicianrated tools being available for assessing the severity of. Inventory spai, the social phobia scale sps and the. Abstract in this report we examined the reliability and structural validity of the chilean version of the social phobia and anxiety inventory, spai, turner.
Social phobia and anxiety inventory pdf the spai assesses specific somatic symptoms, cognitions, and behaviors across a wide range of potentially fearproducing situations to measure social anxiety. Social phobia and anxiety inventory j bras psiquiatr, 552. Fear of embarrassment causes me to avoid doing things or speaking to people 7. This study examined the factor structure and psychometric properties of a brief version of.
Augmentation of exposure therapy with dcycloserine for. A doctor can tell that a person has social phobia if the person has had symptoms for at least six months. This 26item quikscore form is fast and easy to score and can be used as a screener in many settings. Students identified during screening as having very low or high social anxiety scores were emailed an authorization code that allowed them to sign up for participation on the electronic sign up board maintained by. Validation of the social interaction anxiety scale and the. Social anxiety disorder or social phobia is a relatively recent diagnostic category. The spai is a 45item selfreport measure of social phobia and ago raphobia. They are terrified of being embarrassed or humiliated. External validity was examined by comparing childrens spaic scores with a independent observers ratings of skill and anxiety in social interaction and social performance tasks and b parental report of social anxiety.
The social phobia subscale contains 32 items, many of which are an average of multiple items from a total of 96 responses. Discriminant validity of the social phobia and anxiety. Results from 4 studies total n 2,436 using the spai23 with college student samples are presented. Assessing reliable and clinically significant change in social phobia. Useful in clinical and research settings, the spaic assesses a range of potentially anxietyproducing situations reading aloud, performing. The social phobia and anxiety inventory spai is a commonly used.
Social phobia and anxiety inventory short version spai18. Measurement invariance of the social phobia and anxiety inventory. Measurement invariance of the social phobia and anxiety. Psychometric properties of the social phobia and anxiety inventory for children spai c were determined using a sample of 254 children.
The spaic helps clinicians and researchers evaluate the somatic, cognitive and behavioural aspects of social phobia. The spai assesses specific somatic symptoms, cognitions, and behaviors across a wide range of potentially fearproducing situations to measure social anxiety and fear. Reliability of the social phobia and anxiety inventory spai portuguese. The results provide support for the use of the spai in an adolescent population in a nonenglishspeaking country. The spai18, a brief version of the social phobia and. Participants respond using a 5point scale ranging from 0 never to 4 always to indicate how frequently they experience symptoms related to social phobia 16 items and. The present study reports on the psychometric properties of the social phobia and anxiety inventory spai. Also in comparison to other social anxiety questionnaires such as the social interaction anxiety scale sias. The spaic is an empirically derived selfreport inventory. Spai18 is an abbreviated version of the social phobia and anxiety inventory spai published in 1989 by tuner et al population in the netherlands. The objectives of the present study were to adapt and analyze the factor structure, reliability, and validity of the social phobia and anxiety inventory for children spaic. Brief form of the social phobia and anxiety inventory. The social phobia and anxiety inventory for children spaic has shown initial promise in the assessment of distress in a variety of. Social phobia and anxiety inventory the cognitive centre.
Social phobia and anxiety inventorybrief form wikipedia. The social phobia and anxiety inventory spai is a commonly used selfreport measure of social phobia that has demonstrated adequate reliability, convergent validity, discriminant validity, and criterionrelated validity. Psychometric characteristics of the brazilian portuguese. External validity was examined by comparing childrens spai. It is effective in screening for, and measuring the severity of social anxiety disorder. Although social phobia is one of the most common mental disorders in adolescents, there are few reliable and valid assessment instruments for this age group. The purpose of the present study was to examine the factor structure and psychometric properties of the social phobia and anxiety inventory for children spaic, an instrument developed in the united states and applied to a sample of brazilian schoolchildren.
Brief form of the social phobia and anxiety inventory spaib for. Physical symptoms may include blushing, sweating, trembling, nausea, rapid heartbeat, shortness of breath, dizziness, and headaches. Validation of the social phobia and anxiety inventory for. Psychometric properties of the social phobia and anxiety inventory for children spai c article pdf available in european journal of psychological assessment 281. The process included the translation of the original material from english into portuguese by two bilingual psychiatrists and a back. Pdf psychometric properties of the social phobia and. Reliability of the social phobia and anxiety inventory spai scielo. Our attention is very selffocussed on what we must. Psychometric properties of the social phobia and anxiety inventory for children spaic were determined using a sample of 254 children. Spai results are particularly useful when distinguishing between panic disorder, agoraphobia, and social phobia. The social phobia and anxiety inventory spai23 is a 23item abbreviated inventory to assess social anxiety and agoraphobia symptoms robersonnay et al. The portuguese language version of social phobia and. The social phobia and anxiety inventory spai is a newly developed instrument.
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