Table 1.
Mean (+/- s.d.) values and item-total correlations (rit).
Table 2.
Internal consistency, split-half reliability and test-retest-reliability of the subscales and the total score.
Table 3.
Factorial structure of the GARS.
Factor loadings of the items in the two separate 2-factor solution confirmatory PCA with Varimax rotation for GARS-Fear and GARS-Avoidance. Only loadings with r>.30 are given.
Table 4.
Concurrent and discriminant validity of the GARS.
Correlations of the total scale (Tot), factor 1 (F1 “Everyday situations”) and factor 2 (F2 “Situations with social threat”) with social anxiety (SIAS), fear of negative evaluation (BFNE), trait anxiety (STAI-t), depression (CES-D), and the big five personality dimensions (n = 328).
Table 5.
Fear and avoidance of eye gaze in GSAD and matched healthy controls.
Fig 1.
Distribution of GARS scores in a sample of SAD patients (n = 33) and matched healthy controls (n = 30).
Table 6.
Comparison of GSAD patients and matched healthy controls on the additional GARS items.