Development Of Self-rating Social Anxiety Scale

Objective: To develop a self-rating social anxiety scale for clinic diagnosis.Methods: Firstly setting up item category according to the define of social anxiety in CCMD-3 and current research results. Secondly, structurally designing each item of scale. Choosing the items basing on pre-test. Lastly, defining validity, reliability, and norm.Results: 1. Totally 28 items in scale. The results of factor analysis are: interaction anxiety, speech anxiety, self negative appraisal and fear of others negative appraisal2. Reliability: Spilt-half reliability is 0.85, the amended reliability with Spearman-Brown formula is 0.921. The re-test reliability after 2 weeks is 0.86. a of homogeneity reliability is 0.92, a of interaction sub-scale is 0.76, a of speech anxiety is 0.72, a of self negative appraisal is 0.66, whereas a of fear of others negative appraisal is 0.71.3. Validity: The correlation coefficient between this scale and PRCA-24 is 0.51, the results of discriminant analysis are: the correct rate of diagnosing social anxiety from normal is 92.9%, while correct rate of distinguish social anxiety from other neurosis is 84%.Conclusion: 1. This scale is comprehensive, rating social anxiety from most factor in socialinteraction, such as cognitive, subjective emotion, behavior and physical reaction.2. This scale , with relatively high reliability and validity, can distinguish individuals with social anxiety from normal, and other neurosis.3. Self-rating social anxiety scale is composed of 4 sub-scale: interaction anxiety, speech anxiety, self negative appraisal and fear of others negative appraisal.