Bech P, Angst J
Frederiksborg General Hospital, Psychiatric Institute, Hillerød, Denmark.
Int Clin Psychopharmacol. 1996 Jun;11 Suppl 3:97-100. doi: 10.1097/00004850-199606003-00016.
Most studies on anxiety including social phobia have measured social adjustment behavior rather than quality of life (i.e. the subjective perception of the patient of his or her illness in relation to different domains). These social adjustment studies have found panic disorders to be more disabling than social phobia. However, quality of life was measured in terms of subjective well-being or satisfaction, and the Zürich study showed that patients with social phobia had less well-being in domains of friends, partner and childhood memories than patients with other anxiety or mood disorders. It is concluded that shyness has a great impact on quality of life.
包括社交恐惧症在内的大多数关于焦虑症的研究都测量了社会适应行为，而非生活质量（即患者对自身疾病在不同领域的主观感受）。这些社会适应研究发现惊恐障碍比社交恐惧症更具致残性。然而，生活质量是根据主观幸福感或满意度来衡量的，苏黎世的研究表明，与患有其他焦虑或情绪障碍的患者相比，社交恐惧症患者在朋友、伴侣和童年记忆等方面的幸福感较低。研究得出结论，羞怯对生活质量有很大影响。
