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Social Anxiety Test

With 29 questions completed in about 6 minutes, this social anxiety test explores your reactions to attention, evaluation, unfamiliar people, and everyday interactions. Your result can clarify patterns of nervousness, avoidance, and self-consciousness, giving you a practical starting point for self-reflection and understanding your social profile.

Questions: 296 minutes

Social Anxiety Test: sample question card

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How the Scales are Structured

Expert Situations: Avoidance of Direct ContactESAoDC

Assesses avoidance and discomfort with direct contact during interactions in expert or evaluative situations.

example score8/18

8/18Moderateexample score

0 – 3Low

4 – 9Moderate

10 – 18High

A score of 8 falls in the Moderate range, suggesting a noticeable but not pronounced tendency to avoid direct contact and feel discomfort in expert situations.

Scale 4S4

Measures anxiety about taking initiative in formal situations, especially when interactions feel uncontrolled and criticism is anticipated.

example score8/18

8/18Moderateexample score

0 – 6Low

7 – 10Moderate

11 – 18High

A score of 8 falls in the Moderate range, suggesting noticeable discomfort when initiating or navigating formal interactions with unfamiliar people, particularly when outcomes feel hard to control.

Scale 3S3

Measures emotional restraint and efforts to conceal anxiety in professional situations due to fear of rejection.

example score7/15

7/15Moderateexample score

0 – 5Low

6 – 9Moderate

10 – 15High

A score of 7 falls in the Moderate range, suggesting a noticeable tendency to inhibit emotional expression and mask nervousness in professional contexts.

Scale 2S2

This scale measures post-situational rumination and the drive to control or overcome anxiety in evaluative (expert) social situations.

example score4/15

4/15Lowexample score

0 – 5Low

6 – 9Moderate

10 – 15High

A score of 4 falls in the Low range, suggesting relatively little tendency to ruminate after social situations and a lower drive to control anxiety in evaluative contexts.

Scale 1S1

This scale measures social anxiety when a person is the focus of attention or being observed by others.

example score9/21

9/21Moderateexample score

0 – 5Low

6 – 15Moderate

16 – 21High

A score of 9 falls in the Moderate range, suggesting noticeable but not extreme discomfort and self-consciousness in situations where you are watched or at the center of attention.

Social Anxiety and Social PhobiaSAaSP

Measures the overall intensity of anxiety and avoidance tendencies in social situations due to fear of evaluation by others.

example score58/89

58/89Highexample score

0 – 29Low

30 – 49Moderate

50 – 89High

A score of 58 falls in the High range, suggesting pronounced social anxiety that may be associated with increased discomfort and avoidance in evaluative social interactions.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Self-doubting students

41%OF USERS

People who worry about being judged in class, speaking up, meeting new peers, or giving presentations take it to understand what triggers their anxiety.

Professionals with performance fears

34%OF USERS

Working adults who feel tense in meetings, interviews, networking, or public speaking use it to pinpoint the situations that cause the strongest fear of evaluation.

Clients starting therapy

25%OF USERS

People seeking counseling for avoidance, blushing, trembling, or panic in social situations take it to clarify symptoms and guide a support plan.

BASED ON AGGREGATED, ANONYMIZED DATA FROM TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FREUDLY USERS.

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See How You Compare

Once you complete the test, your results are compared with real-world data from people in your country.
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.

Shaded area — where most people score

Dot — the average

You — your score lands on each curve after the test— your score, after the test

Scale 5S5

You?

Average6

Typical rangeTypical3 – 9

Possible0 – 18

Scale 4S4

You?

Average11.8

Typical rangeTypical8.5 – 15.2

Possible0 – 18

Scale 3S3

You?

Average9.8

Typical rangeTypical7.7 – 11.9

Possible0 – 15

Scale 2S2

You?

Average8

Typical rangeTypical5.2 – 10.8

Possible0 – 15

Scale 1S1

You?

Average15.4

Typical rangeTypical11.9 – 18.9

Possible0 – 21

Social Anxiety and Social PhobiaSAaSP

You?

Average62.2

Typical rangeTypical50.8 – 73.7

Possible0 – 89

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

- No
- Probably not
- Probably yes
- Yes
- No
- Probably no
- Probably yes
- Yes
- No
- Probably not
- Probably yes
- Yes

These are 3 of the 29 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.

WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

Social Anxiety Test - Description and methodology of the test

rumination

social anxiety

fear of negative evaluation

People who feel tense under observation, avoid unfamiliar interactions, or replay conversations may use this social anxiety disorder test to organize those experiences. As a social anxiety test, it helps the respondent examine whether attention, criticism, and social initiative are recurring sources of distress. The result offers a focused starting point for deciding which situations deserve closer self-reflection.

What This Assessment Measures

Items cover observation, evaluation, unfamiliar people, initiative, public speaking, disagreement, and post-event review. As a social anxiety quiz, the result separates avoidance, nervousness, concealment, and rumination.

The displayed dimensions are:

Expert Situations: Avoidance of Direct Contact (0-18) measures avoidance in evaluative contact; Low 0-3, Moderate 4-9, High 10-18.
Scale 4 (0-18) measures anxiety about initiative with unfamiliar people; Low 0-6, Moderate 7-10, High 11-18.
Scale 3 (0-15) measures suppressed emotional expression and hidden nervousness; Low 0-5, Moderate 6-9, High 10-15.
Scale 2 (0-15) measures rumination and the wish to control evaluative anxiety; Low 0-5, Moderate 6-9, High 10-15.
Scale 1 (0-21) measures anxiety under observation or attention; Low 0-5, Moderate 6-15, High 16-21.
Social Anxiety and Social Phobia (0-89) measures general social anxiety and avoidance; Low 0-29, Moderate 30-49, High 50-89.

Methodology and Evidence Base

Each item uses four ordered responses, from No to Yes, with intermediate choices such as Probably not and Probably yes. Answers are combined into the displayed dimensions and overall index; the result gives ranges and bands, but the response labels do not justify inventing a separate point-by-point weighting.

The closest published basis is OSTSPh (Sagalakova & Truevtsev, 2012), whose themes match avoidance, fear of evaluation, inhibited expression, and rumination. The questionnaire is also conceptually consistent with Clark and Wells’s (1995) cognitive model of social phobia. Grigorieva and Enikolopov (2016) provide relevant evidence on the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale and Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale, but that work does not validate this online form.

The result connects reported social anxiety symptoms with the situations that trigger them. Self-report can shift with current stress, self-awareness, and willingness to disclose. The displayed bands organize interpretation, but this questionnaire does not provide population norms or diagnostic thresholds; persistent, impairing difficulties call for broader clinical assessment.

Author: David M. Clark, Richard G. Heimberg

Literature:

Sagalakova, O. A., & Truevtsev, D. V. (2012). Questionnaire of Social Anxiety and Sociophobia. Medical Psychology in Russia, 4(15), Article 19.
Grigorieva, I. V., & Enikolopov, S. N. (2016). Testing Questionnaires “Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale” and “Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale” (Short Version). National Psychological Journal, 1(21), 31-44. 10.11621/npj.2016.0105.
Clark, D. M., & Wells, A. (1995). A Cognitive Model of Social Phobia. In R. G. Heimberg, M. R. Liebowitz, D. A. Hope, & F. R. Schneier (Eds.), Social Phobia: Diagnosis, Assessment, and Treatment (pp. 69-93). New York, NY: Guilford Press.

Updated: 2025-10-02