During my doctoral work, I was struck by how many assessments exist to understand social anxiety, and how few truly capture the full struggle. In my opinion, the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS-SR) stands out above the rest. What makes it so valuable is its ability to measure not just fear, but also avoidance, a core part of what keeps social anxiety going when it’s left untreated.
This page displays the publicly available LSAS-SR (Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale – Self-Report) in its original form, along with the published scoring instructions, reproduced here for educational and clinical use. No modifications have been made to the item wording or scoring. If you choose to complete the test, it takes about 10–15 minutes. Your responses are not stored, saved, or transmitted in any way.
Free Social Anxiety Self-Assessment (LSAS-SR)
This self-assessment is the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale – Self-Report (LSAS-SR), developed by Dr. Michael Liebowitz.
It can give you a sense of how strongly social anxiety may be affecting your life. It is
not a diagnosis or a substitute for a professional evaluation.
This measure assesses the way that social phobia plays a role in your life across a variety of situations. Read each situation carefully and answer two questions about it;
the first question asks how
anxious or fearful you feel in the situation;
the second question asks how often you avoid it.
If you
come across a situation that you ordinarily do not experience, we ask that you imagine “what if you
were faced with that situation”, and then rate the degree to which you would fear this hypothetical
situation and how often you would tend to avoid it (using the 0 to 3 scales below).
