Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale.
LSAS
- What it measures
- Social anxiety disorder severity across 24 social-interaction and performance situations, each rated for both fear/anxiety and avoidance; subscales for performance vs social-interaction situations
- Length and format
- 24 situations (48 ratings: fear + avoidance). 4-point fear (0-3) and 4-point avoidance (0-3) per situation; total 0-144; also a self-report LSAS-SR (clinician-rated/interview)
- Language versions
- Many languages incl. ES, FR, DE, IT, ZH, JA, KO, PT, TR and others
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- open with attribution
Licence classification is a research judgement by the catalogue’s authors, not legal advice, and it can be out of date. Confirm terms with the copyright holder or publisher before using an instrument, especially for commercial use.
- Reference
- Liebowitz, M. R. (1987). Social phobia. Modern Problems of Pharmacopsychiatry, 22, 141-173.
Choosing between this and the alternatives
We do not deliver this instrument. If you are selecting a measure for a research programme, a national survey or an assessment product, and the question is which instrument, in which language, against which norms and under which licence, that is the work we do.
Talk to us about instrument selection