One of the most popular measures of social anxiety is the Liebowitz Social Anxiety scale (LSAS). Recently, the LSAS has been converted into a self-reported format (LSAS-SR). Yao et al. (1999) has adapted the LSAS and LSAS-SR into French. They reported no difference between both versions. However, Yao et al. (1999) did not assess the score reliability and structural validity of the scale. In addition, no study to date has examined the test-retest reliability of the French version LSAS-SR. The present study was designed to overcome these limitations. In a first sample, 428 French speaking volunteers (292 women) were administered the French version of the LSAS-SR. In a second sample, 114 participants were administered the LSAS-SR twice over an 8-week period. Confirmatory factor analyses establish the structural validity of the French version of the LSAS-SR. Good psychometric properties, including test-retest reliability, are also observed.

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Nowadays, the idea of a reciprocal influence of physiological and psychological processes seems to be widely accepted. For instance, current theories of embodied emotion suggest that knowledge about an emotion concept involves simulations of bodily experienced emotional states relevant to the concept. In line with this framework, the present study investigated whether actual levels of physiological arousal interact with the processing of emotional words. Participants performed 2 blocks of an attentional blink task, once after a cycling session (increased arousal) and once after a relaxation session (reduced arousal). Concretely, participants were instructed to detect and report 2 target words (T1 and T2) presented among a series of nonword distractors. T1 and T2 were either neutral, high arousal, or low arousal words. Results revealed that increased physiological arousal led to improved reports of high arousal T2 words, whereas reduced physiological arousal led to improved reports of low arousal T2 words. Neutral T2 remained unaffected by the arousing conditions. These findings emphasize that actual levels of physiological arousal modulate the cognitive access to arousal (in-)congruent emotional concepts and suggest a direct grounding of emotion knowledge in our bodily systems of arousal.

Le questionnaire Exercise Confidence Survey mesure l'auto-efficacité perçue pour la pratique d'une activité physique régulière. Sallis (1996) a identifié deux dimensions dans l'Exercise Confidence Survey : l'adhésion à l'activité physique (sticking to it) et le temps consacré à l'activité physique (making time for exercise). L'objectif de la présente étude est d'examiner les propriétés psychométriques de la version en langue française de ce questionnaire. La version française de l'Exercise Confidence Survey a été remplie par 293 participants. Une analyse factorielle confirmatoire indique que le modèle bifactoriel proposé par Sallis (1996) est acceptable, mais suggère un modèle bifactoriel plus parcimonieux dans lequel un item de chacune des deux dimensions proposées par Sallis mesurerait respectivement l'autre dimension du modèle. Enfin, l'auto-efficacité perçue est corrélée avec les trois autres composants du modèle transthéorique (MTT) : les stades motivationnels de changement, la balance décisionnelle et les processus de changement. La version en langue française du Questionnaire d'auto-efficacité perçue pour la pratique d'une activité physique présente une consistance interne satisfaisante et peut être utilisée de manière valide dans une population francophone.