Table 1.

LSAS Subscales by Sexual Orientation

	n	LSAS Fear M(SD) α	LSAS Avoidance M(SD) α	LSAS Social M(SD) α	LSAS Perform M(SD) α
Lesbian	22	20.02(12.76) .92	20.48(11.73) .87	19.55(12.17) .89	20.94(12.46) .91
Gay	21	16.63(8.96) .92	15.34(7.22) .87	16.01(7.67) .89	16.03(9.35) .91
Heterosexual	54	18.21(12.00) .94	17.84(10.73) .89	18.14(12.31) .93	17.87(10.22) .89
Bisexual	55	26.27(11.85) .88	25.93(12.42) .86	27.52(13.16) .89	24.94(11.92) .90
Indicated a Write-in Response	28	26.29(11.46) .83	23.92(11.94) .81	26.53(13.24) .93	23.33(11.29) .86
Write-in Response subgroups:
Queer	5	26.72(18.86)	27.43(17.98)	33.44(19.58)	20.62(18.53)
Questioning	5	27.12(9.23)	25.18(11.80)	27.50(10.63)	22.33(10.13)
Unspecified	8	23.00(8.91)	16.71(9.86)	19.38(11.24)	21.52(8.33)
Pansexual	2	33.63(7.97)	31.76(6.73)	29.07(5.76)	36.00(8.49)
Additional Identitiesa	8	27.01(9.93)	24.85(8.19)	27.38(10.98)	24.52(8.02)

Note:

^aAdditional identities = Asexual (1), Mostly Women (1), Free Love (1), Continuum (1), Mainly Men (1), Choose Not to Define (1), Open (1), Sexual (1).

LSAS = Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale Self-Report; α= Cronbach’s alpha value

Unspecified = individuals who selected the write-in response category but did not write in an identity label