Wondering if you suffer from social anxiety?
Get a paper and pen and take one of the most commonly used self-report tests worldwide to figure it out!
The following questionnaire is designed to assess the way social anxiety affects your life.
You will be asked to rate two things regarding each presented situation:
How anxious or fearful you feel in the situation and how often you avoid it.
In case there is a situation you ordinarily do not experience,
imagine "What if you were faced with that situation?"
It is important you base your answers on your experiences of the past week. Not the past years.
Please rate your fear based on the following options. None, mild,
moderate, or severe.
For none you assign zero points, for mild one point,
for moderate two points and for severe three points.
Next you will rate how often you avoid the situation based on the following options:
never,
occasionally,
often, or usually
Never means literally zero percent.
Occasionally refers to one to thirty three percent.
Often thrity four to sixty six percent,
And usually means you avoid the situation between sixty seven and one hundred percent of times.
For never you will assign zero points,
for occasionally one point, for often two points, and for usually three points.
We will leave the scale up here, so you always know how many points to assign.
Again for each of the 24 situations you will assign two numbers. Your sheet should look something like this when you are done.
So, ready when you are.
Situation one:
Telephoning in public.
How anxious or fearful do you feel in this situation? And how often do you avoid it?
Please assign two adequate numbers.
Situation two: participating in small groups.
Eating in public places.
Drinking with others in public places.
Talking to people in authority.
Acting, performing, or giving a talk in front of an audience.
Going to a party.
Working while being observed.
Writing while being observed.
Calling someone you don't know very well.
Talking with people you don't know very well.
Meeting strangers.
Urinating in a public bathroom.
Entering a room when others are already seated.
Being the center of attention.
Speaking up at a meeting.
Taking a test.
Expressing a disagreement or disapproval to people you don't know very well.
Looking at people you don't know very well in the eyes.
Giving a report to a group.
Trying to pick up someone.
Returning goods to a store.
Giving a party.
And the last one: resisting a high-pressure salesperson.
So, now that you have answered all the questions, please add together your assigned numbers in order to determine their sum.
In this table you can see how to interpret your results. The higher the score, the stronger the severity of social anxiety.
People with scores between 30 and 60 points are likely to suffer from non generalized social anxiety disorder.
While people with scores above 60 are more likely to suffer from generalized social anxiety disorder.
Non generalized social anxiety is characterized by one or several areas of normal social functioning.
Generalized social anxiety refers to fear of most social situations.
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