SOCIAL PHOBIA AND ANXIETY INVENTORY FOR CHILDREN (SPAI-C)
Below is a sample of a questionnaire used to evaluate the degree of social anxiety in children. The original SPAI-C consists of 26 questions that focus on social phobia and social anxiety. The following, however, is a shorter version that focuses solely on social anxiety. INSTRUCTIONS Please indicate how nervous or scared you feel in […]
IS A CHILD’S SILENCE DURING SOCIAL SITUATIONS A SIGN OF SOCIAL ANXIETY?
Selective mutism (SM) refers to the child’s and/or adolescents’ persistent inability to speak in certain social situations, even though they are perfectly able to speak and understand language. SM has been linked to an extreme form of social anxiety, and thus it is proposed that anxiety could be a contributing factor in the etiology (i.e., […]
IS THERE A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL ANXIETY AND POOR READING COMPREHENSION?
Finding out what the relationship between social anxiety and low academic scores in children is by looking into reading comprehension.