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when meeting and talking with other people”’ (1). Thus the two companion measures were designed to distinguish between scrutiny fears
and concerns about interaction. The scales correspond to the DSM-III-R descriptions of Social Phobia--Circumscribed and Generalised
types, respectively. In this study, the reliability and validity of the Turkish translation of the Social Phobia Scale (SPS) and Social Interaction
Anxiety Scale (SIAS) in male alcohol dependent inpatients were determined.
Method: The study was conducted with hospitalized patients between August 2008 and March 2009 in the Bakirkoy State Hospital
for Mental Health and Neurological Disorders, AMATEM (Alcohol and Drug Research, Treatment and Education Center) in Istanbul.
Participants were 155 consecutively admitted male alcohol dependents. Diagnoses of alcohol dependence and social anxiety disorder
were made with the SCID-I modules of these disorders. Patients were investigated with the SPS, the SIAS (2), the Brief Fear of Negative
Evaluation II (BFNE-II) and the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS).
Results: The Turkish versions of both the SPS and the SIAS were found to be compatible with the original scales. In alcohol dependents,
the internal consistency coefficient (Cronbach’s alpha) was 0.92 for the SPS and 0.93 for the SIAS. For each of the items, the corrected
item-total correlation values were between 0.21 and 0.68 (p