Mini - social phobia inventory (mini-SPIN): psychometric properties and population based norms of the German version

Table 1 Item and scale characteristics of the mini-SPIN

Original item (Connor et al. [14])	German translation (Stangier & Steffens [15])	Inpatient/ day hospital sample (N = 1082)					Representative community sample (N = 1274)
		M	SD	Skew	Kurt	r_it	M	SD	Skew	Kurt	r_it
Fear of embarrassment causes me to avoid doing things or speaking to people.	Aus Angst vor Verlegenheit vermeide ich es, bestimmte Dinge zu tun oder Personen anzusprechen	1.62	1.26	0.30	−1.00	0.74	0.32	0.63	2.13	4.48	0.65
I avoid activities in which I am the centre of attention	Ich vermeide Aktivitäten, durch die ich im Mittelpunkt der Aufmerksamkeit stehe	1.93	1.29	0.03	−1.02	0.78	0.56	0.87	1.49	1.53	0.65
Being embarrassed or looking stupid are among my worst fears	Sich zu schämen oder dumm zu wirken, gehört zu meinen schlimmsten Ängsten	1.66	1.34	0.30	−1.10	0.79	0.32	0.66	2.46	6.79	0.69
Total Scale (mean)		1.74	1.12	0.18	−0.85	0.83^a	0.40	0.61	1.86	3.62	0.80^a

M = mean, SD = standard deviation, Skew = skewness, Kurt = kurtosis, r_it = corrected item scale correlation,^a Cronbach’s alpha; possible answers: 0 = “not at all” to 4 = “extremely”

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