@ARTICLE{Hassanvand Amouzadeh, author = {Hassanvand Amouzadeh, Mahdi and }, title = {THE STANDARDIZATION OF SOCIAL PHOBIA INVENTORY (SPIN) IN NONCLINICAL IRANIAN SAMPLES}, volume = {26}, number = {1}, abstract ={ Background & Aims: The purpose of this study was the standardization of the Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN) in nonclinical Iranian sample based on their sex, academic year, native/non-native trait and college. Materials & Methods: The participants were 1743 students of Shahed University who were studying in 2010-2011 academic year and were selected by cluster sampling and completed Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN). For the evaluation of validity, internal consistency and repeatability of the SPIN the concordant validity, Cronbach α coefficient and test-retest methods were used, respectively. In order to analyze the data Hotelling’s T-square test, multivariate analysis of variance, and Scheffé post-hoc test were used. Results: The results showed that there was a correlation between the marks of SPIN with anxiety subscales of the Anxiety subscales of the symptom checklist SCL-90-R (α }, URL = {http://umj.umsu.ac.ir/article-1-2717-en.html}, eprint = {http://umj.umsu.ac.ir/article-1-2717-en.pdf}, journal = {Studies in Medical Sciences}, doi = {}, year = {2015} }