Validity of Two Questionnaires to Assess Social Fears: The Dutch Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory and the Blushing, Trembling and Sweating Questionnaire |
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| Authors: | S. M. Bögels W. Reith |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Medical, Abnormal and Experimental Psychology, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands;(2) Department of Methodology and Statistics, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | This report evaluates some psychometric properties of the Dutch Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory (SPAI-N) as well as a newly developed instrument to assess fear of showing somatic symptoms among social phobic, the Blushing, Trembling and Sweating Questionnaire (BTS-Q). Results support the reliability and discriminative validity of the Dutch SPAI and the BTS-Q. Both questionnaires are able to discriminate social phobics from a community sample. Social phobics with fear of blushing, trembling, and sweating as the main complaint could be discriminated from social phobics without fear of blushing, trembling, and sweating as the main complaint using the BTS-Q. In contrast with expectations derived from cognitive models of social phobia, social phobics with fear of blushing, trembling, and sweating did not have stronger dysfunctional beliefs about (the social consequences of) blushing, trembling, and sweating than social phobics without such fears. |
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| Keywords: | fear of blushing trembling, and sweating Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory assessment of social fears |
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