Optimal Cut-Off Score Of Social Phobia And Anxiety Inventory-Brief Form: Detecting Dsm-5 Social Anxiety Disorder And Performance-Only Specifier

Keywords

performance-only specifier; screening; social anxiety; social anxiety disorder; SPAI-B

Abstract

No cut-off scores for the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory-Brief (SPAI-B) are available to screen for young adults with and without social anxiety disorder (SAD). In addition, there is a currently heated debate on the utility of the performance-only specifier in DSM-5. The present study is aimed at covering these gaps. Participants included 124 young adults in higher education with a clinical diagnosis of SAD and 81 healthy controls. The SPAI-B scores revealed a continuum of severity among the nonclinical population, performance-only specifier participants, and those with both performance and social interactional fears. Data suggested to use a rounded cut-off of 24 to screen for patients with both performance and interactional fears, and a rounded cut-off score of 23 for young adults with performance-only specifier. Findings demonstrated that the SPAI-B is particularly useful as a screening measure among young adults in higher education, but the limited discriminative capacity of the performance-only specifier may call into question the clinical utility of this recently established specifier.

Publication Date

1-1-2018

Publication Title

European Journal of Psychological Assessment

Volume

34

Issue

4

Number of Pages

278-282

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000324

Socpus ID

85047503486 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85047503486

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