scholarly journals Malaise with praise: A narrative review of 10 years of research on the concept of Fear of Positive Evaluation in social anxiety

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (12) ◽  
pp. 1228-1238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Reichenberger ◽  
Jens Blechert
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Narrative Review ◽  
Fear Of Positive Evaluation ◽  
Positive Evaluation

Targeting fear of positive evaluation in patients with social anxiety disorder via a brief cognitive behavioural therapy protocol: a proof-of-principle study

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 745-750
Author(s):  
Justin W. Weeks ◽  
M. Taylor Wilmer ◽  
Carrie M. Potter ◽  
Elizabeth M. Waldron ◽  
Mark Versella ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy ◽  
Social Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Behavioural Therapy ◽  
Cognitive Behavioural ◽  
Proof Of Principle ◽  
Fear Of Positive Evaluation ◽  
Positive Evaluation

AbstractBackground:Our aim was to develop a brief cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) protocol to augment treatment for social anxiety disorder (SAD). This protocol focused specifically upon fear of positive evaluation (FPE). To our knowledge, this is the first protocol that has been designed to systematically target FPE.Aims:To test the feasibility of a brief (two-session) CBT protocol for FPE and report proof-of-principle data in the form of effect sizes.Method:Seven patients with a principal diagnosis of SAD were recruited to participate. Following a pre-treatment assessment, patients were randomized to either (a) an immediate CBT condition (n = 3), or (b) a comparable wait-list (WL) period (2 weeks; n = 4). Two WL patients also completed the CBT protocol following the WL period (delayed CBT condition). Patients completed follow-up assessments 1 week after completing the protocol.Results:A total of five patients completed the brief, FPE-specific CBT protocol (two of the seven patients were wait-listed only and did not complete delayed CBT). All five patients completed the protocol and provided 1-week follow-up data. CBT patients demonstrated large reductions in FPE-related concerns as well as overall social anxiety symptoms, whereas WL patients demonstrated an increase in FPE-related concerns.Conclusions:Our brief FPE-specific CBT protocol is feasible to use and was associated with large FPE-specific and social anxiety symptom reductions. To our knowledge, this is the first treatment report that has focused on systematic treatment of FPE in patients with SAD. Our protocol warrants further controlled evaluation.

scholarly journals Psychometric evaluation of the Fear of Positive Evaluation Scale in patients with social anxiety disorder.

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin W. Weeks ◽  
Richard G. Heimberg ◽  
Thomas L. Rodebaugh ◽  
Philippe R. Goldin ◽  
James J. Gross
Keyword(s):  
Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Social Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Psychometric Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Positive Evaluation ◽  
Positive Evaluation

Exploring the relationship between fear of positive evaluation and social anxiety

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 386-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin W. Weeks ◽  
Richard G. Heimberg ◽  
Thomas L. Rodebaugh ◽  
Peter J. Norton
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Fear Of Positive Evaluation ◽  
Positive Evaluation

scholarly journals Reactions to Prospective Positive vs. Negative Evaluation in the Laboratory: A Comparison of High and Low Socially Anxious Participants

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 619-631 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin C. Barber ◽  
David A. Moscovitch
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Social Partner ◽  
Social Threat ◽  
Socially Anxious ◽  
Fear Of Positive Evaluation ◽  
Positive Evaluation

We present a study designed to investigate fear of positive vs. negative evaluation within the context of a laboratory-based paradigm designed to evoke social threat. Eighty-nine undergraduates with high (n = 43) or low (n = 46) levels of trait social anxiety took part in a “getting acquainted” task. Participants rated their anxiety about receiving prospective positive vs. negative evaluation in anticipation of receiving public feedback on a filmed introduction of themselves that they had made for an unknown social partner whom they expected they would later meet. Results demonstrated, in contrast to extant theories of fear of positive evaluation in social anxiety, that all participants, including those with high levels of social anxiety, rated the prospect of positive evaluation as anxiety reducing. This finding raises important questions about the construct of fear of positive evaluation and how to measure it “in vivo” in an ecologically valid manner.

Fear of Positive Evaluation and Social Anxiety

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lara Kocijan ◽  
Lynne M. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Standard Group ◽  
Cognitive Behaviour ◽  
Social Interaction Anxiety ◽  
Interaction Anxiety ◽  
Group Cbt ◽  
Fear Of Positive Evaluation ◽  
Positive Evaluation

Fear of negative evaluation (FNE) is a recognised diagnostic feature of Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD). Recently, the role of fear of positive evaluation (FPE) as a factor contributing to SAD has been a focus of research: there is evidence that FPE is associated with measures of social anxiety independent of measures of FNE and that measures of FPE may be sensitive to interventions for SAD. The present study examined the relationships between FPE, FNE and measures of social anxiety and depression in a sample assessed as suitable for group cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) for social anxiety (n = 35), and the responsiveness of measures of FPE and FNE to standard group CBT for social anxiety in a subset of this group (n = 20). Measures of FNE and FPE were positively associated with each other and with measures of social interaction anxiety, general social anxiety concerns, and depression. However, the relationship between the FPE measure and measures of general social anxiety concerns and depression was not significant when FNE was statistically controlled. This is consistent with the view that FPE is specifically related to social interaction anxiety. In this sample, a measure of FPE was reduced in a sample receiving standard group CBT for social anxiety compared to a waitlisted group. The implications of these findings for the conceptualisation of SAD and for the delivery of interventions for those with SAD are considered.

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