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Validarea scalei anxietății sociale pentru adolescenți: date normative și alte dovezi ale valabilității construcției
Validation of social anxiety scale for adolescence: normativ data and other evidence of construction validity

Author(s): Iulia Mihaela Otomega, Svetlana Rusnac, Viorel Robu
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Personality Psychology
Published by: Universitatea Liberă Internațională din Moldova
Keywords: adaptation; adolescents; anxiety; social anxiety; item; scale; validation;

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the translation and adaptation procedures for the Romanianlanguage and population, as well as the validation procedure of the Social Anxiety Scale forAdolescents (SAS-A). The scale measures the level of social anxiety in three aspects: a) fear ofnegative evaluation, which translates into fear, worry, concern about negative evaluations fromothers, b) avoidance in new situations or with new people, including social avoidance and suffering/ unhappiness in new situations and unknown persons, c) a total avoidance, reflecting social distresson the whole, discomfort and tendency towards inhibition.

  • Issue Year: 2/2019
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 127-133
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Romanian