Abstract
This study reports on the psychometric characteristics of an alternate format for the Social Interaction Self-Statement Test (SISST) developed by Glass, Merluzzi, Biever, and Larsen (1982). The original SISST instructed subjects to rate the frequency with which they experienced each of 15 positive and 15 negative thoughts after participating in a live heterosocial interaction or after responding to audiotaped stimulus situations. In this study, subjects were asked to rate the frequency of occurrence of the 30 self-statements after reading a description of a heterosexual situation and imagining themselves participating in it. Reliability analyses revealed this form of the SISST to have adequate internal consistency reliability and test-retest stability. Validity data indicated significant correlations with measures of social anxiety, fear of negative evaluations, and irrational beliefs, and nonsignificant correlations with a measure of social desirability. Also, nearly equivalent reliability and validity data were obtained from subjects who read and responded to same or contextually different stimulus situations at each test-retest period.
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