Designing a brief measure of social anxiety: Psychometric support for a three-item version of the Interaction Anxiousness Scale (IAS-3)

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 79, Issue , 2015, Pages 110-115

  Nichols, Austin Lee ^a   Webster, Gregory D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b Department of Psychology University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Brief measure; Individual differences; Interaction Anxiousness Scale; Item response theory; Measurement; Personality; Social anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923065762     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2015.01.043     Document Type: Article

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