The fear, anxiety, or avoidance causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.į. The avoidance, anxious anticipation, or distress in the feared social or performance situation(s) interferes significantly with the person’s normal routine, occupational (academic) functioning, or social activities or relationships, or there is marked distress about having the phobia. The social situations are avoided or endured with intense fear or anxiety.Į. The feared social or performance situations are avoided or else are endured with intense anxiety or distress.ĭ.
The fear or anxiety is out of proportion to the actual threat posed by the social situation and to the sociocultural context.ĭ. Note: In children, this feature may be absent.ī. The person recognizes that the fear is excessive or unreasonable. Note: In children, the fear or anxiety may be expressed by crying, tantrums, freezing, clinging, shrinking, or failing to speak in social situations.Ĭ. The social situations almost always provoke fear or anxiety. Note: In children, the anxiety may be expressed by crying, tantrums, freezing, clinging, shrinking, or failing to speak in social situations.Ĭ. Exposure to the feared social situation almost invariably provokes anxiety, which may take the form of a situationally bound or situationally predisposed panic attack. The individual fears that he or she will act in a way or show anxiety symptoms that will be negatively evaluated (i.e., will be humiliating or embarrassing will lead to rejection or offend others).ī. Note: In children, the anxiety must occur in peer settings and not just during interactions with adults. Examples include social interactions (e.g., having a conversation, meeting unfamiliar people), being observed (e.g., eating or drinking), and performing in front of others (e.g., giving a speech).
Marked fear or anxiety about one or more social situations in which the individual is exposed to possible scrutiny by others. Note: In children, there must be evidence of the capacity for age-appropriate social relationships with familiar people and the anxiety must occur in peer settings, not just in interactions with adults.Ī. The individual fears that he or she will act in a way (or show anxiety symptoms) that will be humiliating or embarrassing. A marked and persistent fear of one or more social or performance situations in which the person is exposed to unfamiliar people or to possible scrutiny by others.
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