IOA: De Inventarisatielijst Omgaan met Anderen / ISS: Inventory of Interpersonal Situations

The Inventory of Interpersonal Situations (ISS; in Dutch IOA) is based on an interactive concept of social anxiety. It takes about 20 minutes to complete.
The ISS consists of 35 interpersonal situations, which are responses in social situations rated with 5-point Likert scales. Subjects first indicate how much ‘anxiety/discomfort’ they would experience (social anxiety) in these situations and then how ‘frequent’ they would perform the behaviour described (social skills). The Discomfort and Frequency scale consist of the same 35 items and the following 5 subscales: giving criticism (items 2, 8, 10, 21, 25, 31 and 33), expressing opinions (items 14, 16, 20, 30, 32 and 34), giving compliments (items 9, 17, 23 and 24), initiating contacts (items 1, 12, 13, 15 and 29), positive self-evaluation (items 4, 26, 27 and 28).
The reliability and validity of the ISS were investigated in several adult psychiatric and non-psychiatric samples. The scales and subscales for Discomfort and Frequency showed stability over time and high internal consistency. The conceptual structure was shown to be rather invariant across socially anxious and non socially anxious groups. In addition, the study on the item and factorial invariance of the ISS revealed stable rank ordering as well as clustering of social responses on Discomfort and Frequency. The ISS scales were able to discriminate between socially anxious/social phobic and non socially anxious samples, and showed significant relationships with independent measures of social anxiety. The ISS scales demonstrated high predictive validity for overt behaviour in social situations. For the use of the ISS in clinical practice the individual’s score could be compared with those of reference groups, as there are socially anxious psychiatric patients, forensic psychiatric patients, heterogeneous psychiatric patients, and normal persons. Several cross-cultural studies with the ISS/IOA were undertaken to assess the equivalence of the inventory in American, Turkish and Indonesian populations (see also Kraaimaat et a., 2002; Van Dam-Baggen et al., 2003; Kraaimaat et al., 2012). The Dutch IOA manual and the IOA inventory are available at Pearson Publishers (www.pearson-nl.com). For research purposes versions of the ISS are available in Bahasa Indonesia [Survai Hubungan Antar Pribadi/AHAP, article in .pdf format], English [Inventory of Interpersonal Situations/ISS; article in .pdf format], German [Fragebogen Umgang mit Anderen/ FUA, article in .pdf format], French [Inventarisation du Contract Social/ICS, article in .pdf format], Spanish [Cuestionario de Situaciones Interpersonales/CSI, article in .pdf format], Turkish [Turkish version [article in .pdf format]and Italian [Questionario sui Rapporti Interpersonali/QRI, article in .pdf format].

Publications

Van Dam-Baggen, Rien & Kraaimaat, Floor (1986). De betrouwbaarheid en validiteit van de Inventarisatielijst Omgaan met Anderen (The reliability and validity of a self-report inventory for social anxiety). Gedragstherapie, 19, 229-248.

Van Dam-Baggen, R. & Kraaimaat, F.W. (1987). Handleiding Inventarisatielijst Omgaan met Anderen. (Manual of the Inventory of Interpersonal Situations). Amsterdam/Lisse: Swets en Zeitlinger.

Van Dam-Baggen, C.M.J. & Kraaimaat, F.W. (1990). Zelfbeoordeling van sociale angst als predictor van observeerbaar gedrag. (1990). Nederlands Tijdschrift voor de Psychologie, 45, 180-183.[article in pdf format]

Kraaimaat, F.W., Janssen, P. & Dam-Baggen, R. (1991). Social anxiety and stuttering. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 72,766.

Dam-Baggen, R., Heck, G. van & Kraaimaat, F. (1992). Consistency of social anxiety in psychiatric patients: properties of persons, situations, response classes and types of data. Anxiety, Stress and Coping, 5, 285-300.

Van Dam-Baggen, Kraaimaat, F.W. & Kiers, H.A.L. (1992). Een exploratief onderzoek naar de structuur van sociale angst bij sociaal angstige psychiatrische patiënten en niet-sociaal angstige normale personen (The structure of social anxiety in socially anxious psychiatric patients and normal subjects). Nederlands tijdschrift voor de psychologie, 47, 41-45. [article in pdf format]

Van Dam-Baggen, C.M.J. & Kraaimaat, F.W. (1999). Assessing social anxiety: the inventory of interpersonal situations (IIS). European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 15 (1), 25-38.[article in .pdf format]

Kraaimaat, F., Janssen, P. & Van Dam-Baggen, R. (1999). Stotteren en Sociale Angst (Stuttering and social anxiety). Stem-, Taal- en Spraakpathologie, 8, 201-209.[article in pdf format]

Van Dam-Baggen, R. & Kraaimaat, F.W. (2000). Handleiding Inventarisatielijst Omgaan met Anderen: geheel gereviseerde editie (Revised Manual of the Inventory of Social Situations). Amsterdam/Lisse: Swets en Zeitlinger.

Kraaimaat, F.W., Vanryckeghem M. & Dam-Baggen, R. van (2002). Stuttering and social anxiety. Journal of Fluency Disorders 27, 319-331

Dam-Baggen, R., Kraaimaat, F. & Elal, G. (2003). Social anxiety in three Western societies. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 59, 6, 673-686.{article in .pdf format]

Dam-Baggen, R. & Kraaimaat, F.W. (2003). Inventory of Interpersonal Situations (ISS)/ Fragebogen Umgang mit Anderen (FUA). In: Angstdiagnostik (Eds. J. Hoyer & J Margraf) Berlin: Springer Verlag, pp 267-271. [article in pdf format]

COTAN (2004). Inventarisatielijst Omgaan met Anderen. Documentatie van Tests en Testresearch in Nederland, aanvulling 17.8. Amsterdam: NIP.[article in .pdf format]

Kraaimaat, F., Dam-Baggen, R. van, Veeninga, A. & Supardi Sadarjoen, S. (2012). Social anxiety in the Netherlands, the United States of America and Indonesia. Cross-cultural studies with the Inventory of Interpersonal Situations (ISS), Report 2, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. [article in . pdf format]

Publications with the ISS/IOA as a measurement of social anxiety

Van Dam-Baggen, Rien & Kraaimaat, Floor (1986). Sociale angst bij hoog en laag sociaal angstige psychiatrische patiënten (Social anxiety and social skills in high and low socially anxious psychiatric patients). Gedragstherapie, 19, 2,83-95.

De Ruiter, C. & Garssen, B. (1989). Social anxiety and fear of bodily sensations in panic disorder and agoraphobia: a matched comparison. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 11, 2, 175-184.

Van Dam-Baggen, R., Kraaimaat, F.W. & Crouzen, M. (1993). De effectiviteit van sociaal-vaardigheidstherapie bij drie subtypen sociaal angstige psychiatrische patiënten (Effect of social skills training in subtypes of socially anxious psychiatric patients). Gedragstherapie, 26, 21-32.

Van Dam-Baggen, R., Kraaimaat, F.W. & Van Emmerik, A. (1997). Sociaal vaardigheidstherapie en cognitieve gedragstherapie even effectief bij sociaal angstige psychiatrische patiënten? (Effectiveness of social skills training and cognitive therapy in socially anxious psychiatric patients). Gedragstherapie, 30 (4), 253-266.

Van Dam-Baggen, R. & Kraaimaat, F.W. (2000). Social skills training in two subtypes of psychiatric patients with generalized social phobia. Scandinavian Journal of Behaviour Therapy, 29, 1-7.

Van Dam-Baggen, C.M.J. & Kraaimaat, F.W. (2000). Group social skill training or cognitive group therapy as the clinical treatment of choice for generalized social phobia? Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 14, 5, 437-451.

Van Balkom, A.J.L.M., De Beurs, E., Hovens & J.E.J.M., Van Vliet, I.M. (2004). Meetinstrumenten bij angststoornissen (Instruments measuring anxiety disorders). Tijdschrift voor Psychiatrie, 46, 10, 687-692.

Huinck, W.J., Langevin, M., Kully, D., Peters, H.F.M. & Hulstijn, W. (2006). The relationship between pretreatment clinical profile and treatment outcome in an integrated stuttering program. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 31, 43-63.

Hornsveld, R.H.J., Hollin, C.R., Nijman, H.L.I. & Kraaimaat, F.W. (2007). Violent forensic psychiatric patients: Individual differences and consequences for treatment. International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, 6, 1, 15-27.

Hornsveld, R.H.J., Nijman, H.L.I., Hollin, C.R. & Kraaimaat, F.W. (2007). An adapted version of the Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration Study (PFS-AV) for the measurement of hostility in violent psychiatric patients. (2007). Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 17, 45-56.

Hornsveld, R.H.J., Nijman, H.L.I., Hollin, C.R. & Kraaimaat, F.W. (2007). Development of the Observation Scale for Aggressive Behavior (OSAB) for Dutch forensic psychiatric in-patients with an antisocial personality disorder. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 30, 6, 480-491

Hornsveld, R.H.J., Nijman, H.L.I., Hollin, C.R.,& Kraaimaat, F.W. (2008). Aggression control therapy for violent forensic psychiatric patients: Method and clinical practice. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 52, 2, 222-233

Hornsveld, R.H.J., Nijman, H.L.I. & Kraaimaat, F.W. (2008). Aggression Control Therapy for violent forensic psychiatric patients: First results. Psychology, Crime and Law, 14, 1, 1-18

Hornsveld, R.H.J., Cuperus, H., Vries, E.T. de & Kraaimaat, F.W. (2008). An evaluation of behavioral and personality differences between native and non-native male adolescents in the Netherlands ordered into treatment in a forensic psychiatric outpatient clinic, and their non-violent peers. Criminal Behavior and Mental Health, 18, 177-189.