Dados Bibliográficos

AUTOR(ES) Benjamin F. Rodriguez , Risa B. Weisberg , Ashley Perry , Martin B. Keller , C. Beard , Cornel Stan
AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA, Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island, The Warren Alpert Medical School
ANO 2012
TIPO Book
PERIÓDICO Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences
ISSN 0739-9863
E-ISSN 1552-6836
EDITORA Sage Publications
DOI 10.1177/0739986312436660
ADICIONADO EM 2025-08-14
MD5 a8213804a2e2bce8dc7fa5267f931625
MD5 238a48e0c3f9eadbeee62e2e57c9fc81

Resumo

The Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS) is one of the most commonly used measures of social anxiety symptoms. To date, no study has examined its psychometric properties in a Latino sample. The authors examined the reliability, temporal stability, and convergent validity of the LSAS in 73 Latinos diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. The original LSAS subscales showed excellent internal consistency and temporal stability over a 1-year period. Participants with social anxiety disorder (SAD) scored significantly higher on all LSAS subscales than participants without SAD, supporting the convergent validity of the LSAS. Similar results were obtained for four subscales proposed by Safren and colleagues. Results have implications for the use of the LSAS as a measure of severity or outcome when comparing diverse populations. Future investigations in larger Latino samples are needed to examine the factor structure of the LSAS.

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