Appendix.
Social Anxiety Questionnaire for adults (SAQ)* (Caballo, Salazar, Arias, and Irurtia, 2010)
| Level of unease, stress or nervousness | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not at all or very slight | Slight | Moderate | High | very high or extremely high |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Please rate all the items and do so honestly; do not worry about your answer because there are no right or wrong ones. Thank you very much for your collaboration. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Greeting someone and being ignored | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 2. Having to ask a neighbor to stop making noise | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 3. Speaking in public | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 4. Asking someone attractive of the opposite sex for a date | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 5. Complaining to the waiter about my food | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 6. Feeling watched by people of the opposite sex | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 7. Participating in a meeting with people in authority | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 8. Talking to someone who isn't paying attention to what I am saying | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 9. Refusing when asked to do something I don't like doing | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 10. Making new friends | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 11. Telling someone that they have hurt my feelings | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 12. Having to speak in class, at work, or in a meeting | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 13. Maintaining a conversation with someone I've just met | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 14. Expressing my annoyance to someone that is picking on me | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 15. Greeting each person at a social meeting when I don't know most of them | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 16. Being teased in public | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 17. Talking to people I don't know at a party or a meeting | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 18. Being asked a question in class by the teacher or by a superior in a meeting | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 19. Looking into the eyes of someone I have just met while we are talking | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 20. Being asked out by a person I am attracted to | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 21. Making a mistake in front of other people | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 22. Attending a social event where I know only one person | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 23. Starting a conversation with someone of the opposite sex that I like | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 24. Being reprimanded about something I have done wrong | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 25. While having dinner with colleagues, classmates or workmates, being asked to speak on behalf of the entire group | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 26. Telling someone that their behavior bothers me and asking them to stop | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 27. Asking someone I find attractive to dance | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 28. Being criticized | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 29. Talking to a superior or a person in authority | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 30. Telling someone I am attracted to that I would like to get to know them better | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Reproduced with permission from “Validation of the Social Anxiety Questionnaire for Adults (SAQ-A30) with Spanish university students: Similarities and differences among degree subjects and regions” by Caballo, Salazar, Arias, et al., 2010, Behavioral Psychology/Psicologia Conductual, 18, pp. 33-34. Copyright 2010 by Fundacion VECA.
Note: The SAQ was known formerly (and published elsewhere) as SAQ-A30. People whose sexual preferences are for the same sex can change the term “opposite sex” for “same sex”
Scoring instructions for the SAQ and its dimensions:
Dimension 1: Interactions with strangers (sum of the items 10, 13, 15, 17, 19, & 22)
Dimension 2: Speaking in public/Talking with people in authority (sum of the items 3, 7, 12, 18, 25, & 29)
Dimension 3: Interactions with the opposite sex (sum of the items 4, 6, 20, 23, 27, & 30)
Dimension 4: Criticism and embarrassment (sum of the items 1, 8, 16, 21, 24, & 28)
Dimension 5: Assertive expression of annoyance, disgust or displeasure (sum of the items 2, 5, 9, 11, 14, & 26)
Total score: Sum of all items of the questionnaire
Cut scores for every dimension and the whole questionnaire are included in table 10.