Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, USA.
J Anxiety Disord. 2011 Jun;25(5):722-6. doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2011.03.009. Epub 2011 Mar 24.
The Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS) is a widely used measure of social anxiety. However, no study has examined the psychometric properties of the LSAS in an African American sample. The current study examined the LSAS characteristics in 97 African Americans diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. Overall, the original LSAS subscales showed excellent internal consistency and temporal stability. Similar to previous reports, fear and avoidance subscales were so highly correlated that they yielded redundant information. Confirmatory factor analyses for three previously proposed models failed to demonstrate an excellent fit to our data. However, a four-factor model showed minimally acceptable fit. Overall, the LSAS performed similarly in our African American sample as in previous European American samples. Exploratory factor analyses are warranted to determine whether a better factor structure exists for African Americans.
列博维茨社交焦虑量表（LSAS）是一种广泛应用于衡量社交焦虑的工具。然而，目前尚无研究调查 LSAS 在非裔美国人样本中的心理测量学特性。本研究调查了 97 名被诊断为焦虑障碍的非裔美国人的 LSAS 特征。总体而言，原始 LSAS 分量表显示出极好的内部一致性和时间稳定性。与之前的报告相似，恐惧和回避分量表高度相关，导致冗余信息。对于之前提出的三种模型的验证性因子分析未能证明对我们数据的拟合程度很好。然而，四因素模型显示出最小可接受的拟合度。总体而言，LSAS 在我们的非裔美国人群体中的表现与之前的欧洲裔美国人样本相似。需要进行探索性因素分析以确定是否存在更适合非裔美国人的因子结构。
