Abstract
The purpose of this study was to develop a Social Anxiety Scale by Social Situations (SASSS) assess the affective aspects of social anxiety in different social situations, and to investigate its reliability and validity. The SASSS contains 30 items that were generated based on the result of an open-ended questionnaire, which was answered by 135 undergraduate university students.
In a factor analysis of SASSS data from 518 undergraduates, five factors were selected and labeled as presentation/speech anxiety, distanced anxiety, heterosocial anxiety, silence anxiety and authoritative anxiety.These subscales of the SASSS were shown to possess a high level of internal consistency and test-retest reliability. The scales correlated well with established measures of social anxiety and trait anxiety. It appears that the SASSS is a reliable and valid measure of social anxiety by social situations.
