Title: Fear of Negative and Positive Evaluation across Social Evaluative Situations
Abstract: Fear of negative and fear of positive evaluation are both important in understanding social evaluative anxiety. Fear of negative evaluation has b een linked with social anxiety, public speaking anxiety, and test anxiety; whereas fear of positive evaluation has only been linked with social anxiety. This paper reviews the literature on fear of negative and positive evaluation in relation to each of the social evaluative situations and then presents the findings of a study that will attempt to differentiate the three types of social evaluative situations. Fear of negative evaluation was correlated with each of the three social evaluative situations ; whereas fear of positive evaluation was correlated with both social anxiety and test anxiety but not public speaking anxiety. Finally, social anxiety did not moderate the relationships of FPE with either test anxiety or public speaking anxiety. These findings provide a better understanding of the types of evaluation fears that individuals with social anxiety, public speaking anxiety, and test anxiety may exhibit, which should be considered when assessing distorted cognitions. 2 FEAR OF NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE EVALUATION Fear of Negative and Positive Evaluation across Social Evaluative Situations Anxiety about being in social evaluative situations is common, and people often avoid these types of situations as a result. For example, numerous studies have linked social anxiety and fear of negative evaluation (Carleton, Collimore, McCabe, & Antony, 20 1 1 ) . Less is lmown about fear of negative evaluation across other types of social evaluative situations, such as public speaking or taking tests. In addition, recent research has found that positive evaluation is likewise associated with social anxietya topic that has not been examined in conjunction with public speaking or test anxiety. Thus, the present study examined negative and positive evaluation across three types of different but related social evaluative situations: social interactions, public speaking, and testing situations. This paper begins with a review of relevant literature and then presents the results of our study that examined the relations of both fear of negative and fear of positive evaluation to these social evaluative situations .
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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