The Establishment Of The Evaluation Standard Of Social Anxiety For College Students In Hunan

Objective:With the Interaction Anxiousness Scale (IAS) as the measuring tool, Preliminary establish the norm of social anxiety of college students in Hunan Province and establish four degree evaluation standard of social anxiety, in order to provide the normative references for practical operation.Methods:Using the gender, grade, subject and school level as the demographic variables, a total of1935college students (866males and1069females) from the Hunan were chosen by stratified random sampling and test on IAS.49students immediately after IAS survey to test on LSAS for the measurement criterion. After two weeks randomly selected31to retested, and test its retest reliability, internal consistency reliability, and criterion related validity.Results:1. The retest reliability and internal consistency reliability of the Interaction Anxiousness Scale in Hunan is0.838and0.731.2. The correlation coefficient between IAS and the criterion scale LSAS is0.606, significant at the0.01level.3. The scores of the IAS of Hunan college students don’t have significant differences on gender and school level these two demographic variables; in different grades, social anxiety levels of the sophomore are significantly higher than freshman, but there was no significant difference between any other two grades; science and engineering students scored significantly higher than the history and art students do.Conelusion:1. The Interaction Anxiousness Scale has good reliability and validity in Hunan Province.2. The social anxiety of students are not significant difference in gender and school level; the significant differences exist on the subject, the social anxiety level of history students is significantly higher than that of science and engineering students.3. We establish the norm of social anxiety for college students in Hunan. And developed four scoring criteria of the Interaction Anxiousness Scale (IAS):normal, mild, moderate and severe.