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Clinical: mood, anxiety and stress

Social Interaction Anxiety Scale.

SIAS

What it measures
Anxiety experienced in social-interaction situations (meeting and talking with others, dyadic and group interaction); companion to the SPS
Length and format
20 (some scoring uses 19). 5-point (0-4, not at all to extremely characteristic), summed 0-80 (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Many languages incl. ES, DE, ZH, PT, NL, FR 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
public-domain / open

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Reference
Mattick, R. P., & Clarke, J. C. (1998). Development and validation of measures of social phobia scrutiny fear and social interaction anxiety. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 36(4), 455-470.

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