Social Avoidance and Distress Scale (SAD)

Watson & Friend (1969)

Anatomy

Fig. Social Avoidance and Distress Scale (SAD) → its items → the construct(s) they measure. Click a construct to follow it.

Measures this construct

Social avoidance (unresolved)
Social distress (unresolved)
Social Anxiety

Items

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Reliability & validity

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Validity: Not recorded

Items measuring this instrument

Canonical item stems whose source_items[] includes a variant from this instrument. Capped at 10; see the full list via the link below.

being introduced to people makes me tense and nervous

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even though a room is full of strangers i may enter it anyway r

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i am seldom at ease in a large group of people

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i am usually at ease when talking to someone of the opposite sex r

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i am usually nervous with people unless i know them well

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i dont mind talking to people at parties or social gatherings r

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i feel relaxed even in unfamiliar social situations r

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i find it easy to relax with other people r

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i have no particular desire to avoid people r

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i often feel nervous or tense in casual gettogethers in which both sexes are present

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