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Testing the Bivalent Fear of Evaluation Model of Social Anxiety: The Relationship between Fear of Positive Evaluation, Social Anxiety, and Perfectionism

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Title
Testing the Bivalent Fear of Evaluation Model of Social Anxiety: The Relationship between Fear of Positive Evaluation, Social Anxiety, and Perfectionism
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Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, January 2016
DOI 10.1080/16506073.2015.1125941
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Keong Yap, Amy L. Gibbs, Andrew J. P. Francis, Sharynn E. Schuster

Abstract

The Bivalent Fear of Evaluation (BFOE) model of social anxiety proposes that fear of negative evaluation (FNE) and fear of positive evaluation (FPE) play distinct roles in social anxiety. Research is however lacking in terms of how FPE is related to perfectionism and how these constructs interact to predict social anxiety. Participants were 382 individuals from the general community and included an oversampling of individuals with social anxiety. Measures of FPE, FNE, perfectionism, and social anxiety were administered. Results were mostly consistent with the predictions made by the BFOE model and showed that accounting for confounding variables, FPE correlated negatively with high standards but positively with maladaptive perfectionism. FNE was also positively correlated with maladaptive perfectionism, but there was no significant relationship between FNE and high standards. Also consistent with BFOE model, both FNE and FPE significantly moderated the relationship between maladaptive perfectionism and social anxiety with the relationship strengthened at high levels of FPE and FNE. These findings provide additional support for the BFOE model and implications are discussed.

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Unknown 59 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 19%
Student > Master 8 14%
Student > Bachelor 6 10%
Researcher 6 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 5%
Other 11 19%
Unknown 14 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 34 58%
Social Sciences 5 8%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 2%
Linguistics 1 2%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 2%
Other 1 2%
Unknown 16 27%