Introduction
Interaction Anxiety Scale (IAS) is a free online test for social phobia. IAS was developed by Leary in 1983 and is mainly used to assess the tendency of subjective social anxiety experience independent of behavior. IAS consists of 15 self-report items, which involve subjective anxiety (tension and neurosis) or its opposite (relaxation, quietness), but do not involve specific external behavior. A large number of them involve immediate social occasions, which means that the individual's reaction in such occasions is not predetermined in advance, but depends on the reaction of other people present at the time (which is the opposite of the situation of preparing a speech in public in advance). As a scale to measure the tendency of social anxiety experience in conversation, IAS shows good reliability and validity.
Note: Since the scale is only an auxiliary screening tool, the scale test results are for reference only.
| Scores | Reference results |
|---|---|
| 15~30 points | Social anxiety is very low |
| 31~45 points | Social anxiety is relatively low |
| 46~60 points | Social anxiety is relatively high |
| 61~75 points | Social anxiety is very high |
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Explanation:
The score range is 15~75. Scores in the range of 15-30 indicate low levels of social anxiety. Scores in the range of 31-45 indicate low levels of social anxiety. Scores in the range of 46-60 indicate high levels of social anxiety. Scores in the range of 61-75 indicate high levels of social anxiety. Higher scores indicate more severe symptoms. |