Open AccessThe Spanish Version of the Self-Statements during Public Speaking Scale: Validation in Adolescents.
Author(s) -
Raul Rivero,
Luis-Joaquín García-López,
S. Hofmann
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
european journal of psychological assessment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.927
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 2151-2426
pISSN - 1015-5759
DOI - 10.1027/1015-5759/a000018
Subject(s) - psychology , social anxiety , anxiety , scale (ratio) , clinical psychology , cognition , psychometrics , sample (material) , developmental psychology , psychiatry , chemistry , physics , chromatography , quantum mechanics
Contemporary theories of social anxiety emphasize the role of cognitive processes. Although social anxiety disorder is one of the most common mental health problems in adolescents, there are very few self-report instruments available to measure cognitive processes related to social anxiety in adolescents, let alone non-English instruments. The Self-Statements during Public Speaking Scale (SSPS; Hofmann & DiBartolo, 2000) is a brief self-report measure designed to assess self-statements related to public speaking, the most commonly feared social performance situation. In order to fill this gap in the literature, we translated the SSPS into Spanish and administered it to 1,694 adolescents from a community sample, a clinical sample composed of 71 subjects with a principal diagnosis of social anxiety disorder; and a clinical control group consisting of 154 patients. The scale showed good psychometric properties, supporting the use of the Spanish version of the SSPS in adolescents.