Social Anxiety Test

Understand how social fear and avoidance show up across different areas of your life

What this test measures

The Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS) is one of the most widely used and validated instruments for measuring social anxiety. Developed by Dr Michael Liebowitz, it measures fear and avoidance across social interaction and performance situations. This adaptation covers four key dimensions: fear of negative evaluation, social performance anxiety, social interaction anxiety, and avoidance behaviour. It is for educational self-reflection only.

What the Social Anxiety Test measures

Your answers are scored across 4 core dimensions:

• Fear of Evaluation

  Your fear of negative evaluation is moderate. You care about what others think to a meaningful but not overwhelming degree. In familiar or supportive environments you move through this easily, but in newer, higher-stakes, or less predictable social situations the concern about being judged can grow louder and more intrusive.

• Performance Anxiety

  Your social performance anxiety is moderate. You can manage presentations, group contributions, and observed activities when you feel prepared, but performance-oriented situations reliably produce more anxiety than casual social settings. With enough preparation or familiarity, you handle them — but they cost you more than they seem to cost others.

• Social Interaction Anxiety

  Your social interaction anxiety is moderate. You manage reasonably well in familiar company or structured settings, but unstructured social situations, large groups, and meeting new people reliably produce more anxiety. You have probably developed approaches that allow you to participate — but at a higher background cost of effort and self-monitoring.

• Avoidance

  Your avoidance is moderate. You push through many situations despite the anxiety but regularly avoid specific types of social encounter — particularly those that feel most threatening. The avoidance is selective rather than total, but it is real enough to have shaped your choices and limited some opportunities.

How it works

1. Answer 40 questions honestly — there are no right or wrong answers.
2. Takes about 8 minutes. No signup, no email, no account.
3. Get your full result instantly — no paywall, no upsell, no teaser.
4. Your answers are encoded into your results link, not stored on our servers.

How to read your results

Results from the Social Anxiety Testare for self-reflection and personal insight. No personality test captures the full complexity of a person, and your result is a snapshot of how you answered today — not a fixed label. Use it as a starting point for understanding patterns in how you think, decide, and relate to others, then take what resonates and leave what doesn’t.

For self-reflection and educational purposes only. Not a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment.