TABLE 1.

Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of Subjects With Generalized Social Phobia Without Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Subjects with Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and Healthy Subjects

Variable	Patients With Generalized Social Phobia Without Generalized Anxiety Disorder (N=17)		Patients With Generalized Anxiety Disorder (N=17)		Healthy Comparison Subjects (N=17)		p
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Age (years)	29.0	8.7	35.0	10.6	31.2	9.1	n.s.
IQ	121.8	9.8	118.6	15.6	123.9	7.8	n.s.
Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale scorea	68.3	20.7	57.2	26.7	22.3	14.5	<0.001
Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory scoreb	52.4	8.5	48.8	11.5	—		—
Beck Anxiety Inventory scorec	9.4	7.1	11.8	7.4	3.7	5.0	<0.005
Inventory of Depressive Symptoms scored	16.6	10.2	21.3	9.7	7.4	6.4	<0.001
	N		N		N
Gender	8 female/ 9 male		11 female/ 6 male		8 female/ 9 male		n.s.
Race
Caucasian	11		13		11
African American	4		2		4
Asian	2		2		2

^aAssesses severity of social anxiety and avoidance. It features 24 items, with 13 relating to performance anxiety and 11 relating to social situations. Each item is scored according to social anxiety and avoidance (0 through 3).

^bAssesses level of trait anxiety. It features 20 items, with 11 relating to anxiety-present, and nine to anxiety-absent anxiety-related feelings and cognitions. Each item is scored according to frequency (1 through 4), with ratings for anxiety-absent items reversed for scoring.

^cAssesses severity of not social-specific anxiety. It features 21 items, each describing a common symptom of anxiety. Each item is scored according to how bothersome the symptom is experienced by the subject (0 through 3).

^dAssesses level of depressive symptomatology. It features 30 items, each describing a symptom of depression. Two sets of symptoms are mutually exclusive (weight loss/gain and appetitive loss/gain), resulting in 28 scored items. Each item is scored according to best fit (0 through 3).