Construction and Validation of Social Anxiety Disorder Exposure and Evaluation Scale – SADEE
Arq. bras psicol; 73 (2), 2022
Publication year: 2022
In the cases of Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD), treatment dropout is a frequent problem, which demands the development of instruments that enable treatment compliance. The present paper deals with the construction and validation of the Social
Anxiety Disorder Exposure and Evaluation Scale (SADEE). The number of participants
in the study was N = 407 responders of both genders. The process of content validity
first led to the modification of problematic items. The construct validity was investigated by both exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis, with the
objective of estimating a unidimensional measure. The final adjustment obtained was
that CFI = .99; TLI = .98; RMSEA = .04; SRMR = .07; χ2 /gl = 1.70. SADEE presented
high correlation with the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale and high reliability. The conclusion was that SADEE showed satisfactory evidence of construct and concurrent
validity, internal consistency and test-retest reliability.