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Clinical: mood, anxiety and stress

Social Phobia Inventory.

SPIN

What it measures
Social anxiety disorder severity across three domains: fear, avoidance, and physiological discomfort in social situations
Length and format
17 items. 5-point (0-4, not at all to extremely), summed 0-68; cut-off ~19 for SAD (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Many languages incl. ES, PT, FR, DE, ZH, KO, TR, FA 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
copyrighted - author permission

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Reference
Connor, K. M., Davidson, J. R. T., Churchill, L. E., et al. (2000). Psychometric properties of the Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN). British Journal of Psychiatry, 176, 379-386.

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