Anticipatory processing has been considered as a cognitive vulnerability factor, playing a prominent role in the
onset, maintenance and aggravation of social anxiety. The Anticipatory Social Behaviors Questionnaire(ASBQ)
recently developed by Hinricshsen and Clark(2003) is a widely-used self-report measurement of anticipatory
processing. The present study investigated the psychometric properties of the Korean version of ASBQ in
non-clinical colleage sample as well as scale’s validity. Also, this study attempted to identify such
multidimensional factor as adaptive and maladaptive factor in anticipatory processing. The Korean versions of
ASBQ, SIAS, SPS, B-FNE, SDSAS, PERS, PSWQ, CFI and CES-D were administered to 549 undergraduate
students. The results was following. First, the exploratory factor analysis yielded two factor structure-
‘preparation’ and ‘avoidance’ factor. Second, three competitive models which were drawn from precedent
studies were adopted to find the best factor model of K-ASBQ for college students. As a result, we found
that our two factor model based on exploratory factor analysis of 269 Korean undergraduates was the best
fitting model for the Korean college students. Third, it had appropriate construct validity with a significant
positive correlation with SIAS, SPS, B-FNE, SDSAS and PERS after controlling for depression. Fourth, the
results showed relatively high internal consistency and adequate test-retest reliability over a 2 week period.
Finally, the results showed that ‘preparation’ factor did not predict the social anxiety when the fear of the
negative evaluation was low, while ‘avoidance’ factor significantly predicted the social anxiety regardless of the
level of fear of negative evaluation, which was interpreted as that ‘preparation’ factor reflects the adaptive
aspect of anticipatory processing.Finally, the implications and limitations of the present study and suggestions
for future research were discussed.