Factor structure of the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale in community-dwelling subjects in Japan

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 525-528

  Sugawara, Norio ^a,b   Yasui Furukori, Norio ^b   Kaneda, Ayako ^b   Sato, Yasushi ^a,b   Tsuchimine, Shoko ^b   Fujii, Akira ^b   Danjo, Kazuma ^b   Takahashi, Ippei ^b   Matsuzaka, Masashi ^b   Kaneko, Sunao ^b  

^a Department of Psychiatry   (Japan)

^b HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

confirmatory factor analysis; Japanese; Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; JAPAN; LIEBOWITZ SOCIAL ANXIETY SCALE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY;

AGED; ANXIETY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84867509979     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: 14401819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2012.02381.x     Document Type: Article

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