Participants

The sample was 385 students (216 female) of the clients’ list (1,603 people) of psychological services clinic at University of Kurdistan who complained about anxiety and have had referred already (from February 2015 to December 2017). They voluntarily participate in this project, in echoing to researchers’ message and electronic recall. After the description of the study, they accepted to participate and wrote informed consent and responded to all measures. Finally, 320 cases’ protocol (181 female ~57%), was diagnosed valid for data analysis. The range of age for the final sample was 18 to 34 years (mean = 23.08; SD = 2.66). One hundred and sixty individuals, who had shown anxiety in social situations on basis of the measures results, participated in two interviews in addition to questionnaires that were utilised for diagnosing of APD and SAD. Forty three participants met criteria for SAD alone (7 male, 36 female); and 38 participants met criteria for APD (23 male, 15 female).