This study investigated the use of the DAS test as an instrument to measure middle school students'
social anxiety by looking into a relationship between the social anxiety of middle school students and their
reactions on Draw-a-Story test. Participants for this study were 355 middle school students residing in a
city. The instruments included Silver's story and drawing test and an adolescent social anxiety scale. Data
were analyzed using correlation analysis, t-test, and cross-tabulation on SPSS 18.0. First, in regards to
gender differences in social anxiety, female students showed a higher level of interpersonal anxiety than
male students. Second, in regards to gender differences in reactions on DAS, male students showed more
negative emotions and self-images than female students. Third, a negative correlation was found between
social anxiety and emotional scale and self-image scale on DAS. That is, the adolescents in the higher social
anxiety group described more negative situations, relationships, or unhappy images of self than those in the
lower social anxiety group. DAS. DAS was more related to the social anxiety of female students than to
male students. Fourth, among 14 stimulus drawings, the higher social anxiety group chose stimulus
drawings such as a parachute, a knife, and a castle more than the lower social anxiety group. The findings
of this study support the possibility of DAS to be used as an instrument to measure adolescents' social
anxiety.