Social anxiety disorder: questions and answers for the DSM‐V

SM Bögels, L Alden, DC Beidel, LA Clark… - Depression and …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Background: This review evaluates the DSM‐IV criteria of social anxiety disorder (SAD), with
a focus on the generalized specifier and alternative specifiers, the considerable overlap …

Social anxiety in young people: A prevalence study in seven countries

P Jefferies, M Ungar - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Social anxiety is a fast-growing phenomenon which is thought to disproportionately affect
young people. In this study, we explore the prevalence of social anxiety around the world …

Understanding psychological flexibility: A multimethod exploration of pursuing valued goals despite the presence of distress.

TB Kashdan, DJ Disabato, FR Goodman… - Psychological …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Psychological flexibility (PF), defined as the ability to pursue valued life aims despite the
presence of distress, is a fundamental contributor to health (Kashdan & Rottenberg, 2010) …

Structural relationships among dimensions of the DSM-IV anxiety and mood disorders and dimensions of negative affect, positive affect, and autonomic arousal.

TA Brown, BF Chorpita, DH Barlow - Journal of abnormal …, 1998 - psycnet.apa.org
Using outpatients with anxiety and mood disorders (N= 350), the authors tested several
models of the structural relationships of dimensions of key features of selected emotional …

Psychometric properties of the Liebowitz social anxiety scale

RG Heimberg, KJ Horner, HR Juster… - Psychological …, 1999 - cambridge.org
Background. The present study provides data on the reliability, validity and treatment
sensitivity of the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS), one of the most commonly used …

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

DM Fresco, ME Coles, RG Heimberg… - Psychological …, 2001 - cambridge.org
Background. The clinician-administered version of the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS-
CA) is a commonly used assessment device for the evaluation of social anxiety disorder and …

Self-compassion and social anxiety disorder

KH Werner, H Jazaieri, PR Goldin, M Ziv… - Anxiety, Stress & …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Self-compassion refers to having an accepting and caring orientation towards oneself.
Although self-compassion has been studied primarily in healthy populations, one …

Achieving certainty about the structure of intolerance of uncertainty in a treatment-seeking sample with anxiety and depression

PM McEvoy, AEJ Mahoney - Journal of anxiety disorders, 2011 - Elsevier
Evidence is accumulating that intolerance of uncertainty (IU) may be a transdiagnostic
maintaining factor across the anxiety disorders and depression. However, psychometric …

Development and examination of the social appearance anxiety scale

TA Hart, DB Flora, SA Palyo, DM Fresco… - …, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
The Social Appearance Anxiety Scale (SAAS) was created to measure anxiety about being
negatively evaluated by others because of one's overall appearance, including body shape …

Development of a short form Social Interaction Anxiety (SIAS) and Social Phobia Scale (SPS) using nonparametric item response theory: the SIAS-6 and the SPS-6.

L Peters, M Sunderland, G Andrews… - Psychological …, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
Shortened forms of the Social Interaction Anxiety Scale (SIAS) and the Social Phobia Scale
(SPS) were developed using nonparametric item response theory methods. Using data from …