Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale

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The Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale ( LSAS ) is a questionnaire for assessing the severity of a social phobia . The English version is from Liebowitz from 1987 and the German translation from Stangier and Heidenreich from 2005. In 24 questions it is to be assessed how hard one tries to avoid the situation described in each case. The questionnaire was developed with the aim of covering a particularly wide range of situations. The assessment is made on a scale between 0 and 3. Despite the questionable face validity , the answers are summarized in such a way that a distinction is made between performance situations and interaction situations. Accordingly, 5 values ​​can be formed:

  • Fear of performance situations
  • Avoidance of performance situations
  • Fear of interaction situations
  • Avoidance of interaction situations
  • Total value

It is also critical that the fear and avoidance subscales correlate quite highly with one another . Thus, the total value in particular can be interpreted. The questionnaire can be used well for therapy planning. The S3 guideline for anxiety disorders recommends the questionnaire to determine the severity of social phobias. The questionnaire is intended for external assessment. Nevertheless, the questionnaire is increasingly used as a self-assessment, whereby it would have been shown that external and self-assessment correspond quite well. The time required for an external assessment is estimated at 30 minutes, which is why the self-assessment is a considerable time saver.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Kristin Mitte, Thomas Heidenreich, Ulrich Stangier: Diagnostics for social phobias . Hogrefe Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8409-2043-1 , pp. 38 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Borwin Bandelow, Georg W. Alpers, Cord Benecke, Manfred E. Beutel, Jürgen Deckert, Annegret Eckhardt-Henn, Christian Ehrig, Kerstin Engel, Peter Falkai, Franziska Geiser, Alexander L. Gerlach, Stephan Hau, Timo Harfst, Peter Joraschky , Michael Kellner, Volker Köllner, Gernot Langs, Thomas Lichte, Heinz Liebeck, Jürgen Matzat, Markus Reitt, Sebastian Rudolf, Heinrich Peter Rüddel, Gerhard Schick, Ulrich Schweiger, Regine Simon, Andreas Ströhle, Anne Springer, Hermann Staats, Walter Ströhm, Benedikt Waldherr, Birgit Watzke, Dirk Wedekind, Jörg Wiltink, Christian Zottl, Peter Michael Zwanzger: S3 guidelines for the treatment of anxiety disorders . Ed .: Working Group of Scientific Medical Societies [AWMF]. 2014, p. 51 ( awmf.org [PDF]). awmf.org ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.awmf.org
  3. ↑ Borwin Bandelow, Thomas Lichte, Sebastian Rudolf, Jörg Wiltink, Manfred Beutel: S3 guideline for anxiety disorders . Ed .: Borwin Bandelow, Thomas Lichte, Sebastian Rudolf, Jörg Wiltink, Manfred Beutel. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-662-44135-0 , Diagnostik, p. 53–57 , here p. 57 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-662-44136-7_4 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  4. ^ A b Jürgen Hoyer, Sylvia Helbig, Jürgen Margraf: Diagnostics of anxiety disorders . Hogrefe Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-8409-1960-2 , pp. 84 ( limited preview in Google Book search).