Exploring the relationship between fear of positive evaluation and social anxiety

Fears of Negative Emotions in Relation to Fears of Happiness, Compassion,Alexithymia and Psychopathology in a Depressed Population: A Preliminary Study

“…Raes et al [25] found that dampening positive affect predicts depressive symptoms and is also related to symptoms of panic disorder, social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder and OCD [26]. Weeks et al [27][28][29] found that some socially phobic people are fearful of positive evaluations as well as negative evaluation.…”

Exploring the latent structure of two cognitive components of social anxiety: taxometric analyses of fears of negative and positive evaluation

“…Recent findings suggest that FPE is also an important cognitive feature of social anxiety. [24,25] FPE correlates strongly and positively with FNE, and both of these constructs correlate strongly with social anxiety. [24,25] Nevertheless, initial findings suggest that FPE and FNE are distinct.…”

“…[24,25] FPE correlates strongly and positively with FNE, and both of these constructs correlate strongly with social anxiety. [24,25] Nevertheless, initial findings suggest that FPE and FNE are distinct. Confirmatory factor analysis of combined items from measures of FPE and FNE in an undergraduate sample suggested that a two-factor fear of evaluation (i.e., FPE and FNE) model fits the data well and was superior to a singlefactor model.…”

“…FPE also accounts for unique variance in social interaction anxiety and fear of public scrutiny above and beyond that accounted for by FNE. [24,25] FPE seems to be uniquely related to social anxiety. For example, FPE relates more strongly to fear of public scrutiny and social interaction anxiety than to symptoms of other anxiety disorders (generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder), or depression in undergraduate samples.…”

“…For example, FPE relates more strongly to fear of public scrutiny and social interaction anxiety than to symptoms of other anxiety disorders (generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder), or depression in undergraduate samples. [24,25] Thus, empirical evidence to date suggests that FNE and FPE are valid and distinct cognitive features of social anxiety and are therefore appropriate constructs for use in examining the latent structure of social anxiety-related cognitions. On the basis of Kollman et al's [10] findings supporting the dimensional latent structure of social anxiety disorder, we hypothesized that these cognitive features of social anxiety would also have dimensional latent structures.…”