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Psychometric evaluation of the social phobia and anxiety inventory in college students
Author(s) -
Osman Augustine,
Barrios Francisco X.,
Aukes Diane,
Osman Joylene R.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(199503)51:2<235::aid-jclp2270510213>3.0.co;2-r
Subject(s) - psychology , varimax rotation , confirmatory factor analysis , social anxiety , psychopathology , anxiety , clinical psychology , psychometrics , beck anxiety inventory , social desirability , structural equation modeling , psychiatry , developmental psychology , cronbach's alpha , beck depression inventory , statistics , mathematics
The present study reports on the psychometric properties of the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory (SPAI; Turner et al., 1989a) in two nonclinical samples of college undergraduates. Exploratory principal‐components analysis with varimax rotation replicated the five‐factor solutions reported for the 32‐item Social Phobia subscale (SP) in sample 1 ( N = 200). Confirmatory factor analyses showed that the five‐factor structure of the SP and the two‐factor structure of the SPAI were appropriate for the second sample ( N = 210) data. Coefficient alpha values were high for all the SP and the SPAI subscales. Furthermore, we examined the relations between the SPAI subscales and measures of social fear and anxiety, social desirability, and general psychopathology. Results support the research use of the SPAI in our undergraduate samples.