Just tell me it’s going to be OK! Fear of negative evaluation may be more important than fear of positive evaluation in predicting excessive reassurance seeking.

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 217-225
Author(s):  
Leanne Kane ◽  
Nancy Bahl ◽  
Allison J. Ouimet
Keyword(s):  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Negative Evaluation ◽  
Reassurance Seeking ◽  
Excessive Reassurance Seeking ◽  
Fear Of Positive Evaluation ◽  
Positive Evaluation

The longitudinal relationship between fear of positive evaluation and fear of negative evaluation

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas L. Rodebaugh ◽  
Justin W. Weeks ◽  
Elizabeth A. Gordon ◽  
Julia K. Langer ◽  
Richard G. Heimberg
Keyword(s):  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Positive Evaluation ◽  
Positive Evaluation

scholarly journals Fear of Evaluation and Online Self-Disclosure on WeChat: Moderating Effects of Protective Face Orientation

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Runxi Zeng ◽  
Di Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Loss Of Face ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Chinese Context ◽  
The Social ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Fear Of Positive Evaluation ◽  
Positive Evaluation

Fear of evaluation is a key factor that affects how social media users present themselves to others, but little is known about the effects and mechanisms involved, especially on the relationship between fear of positive evaluation and online self-disclosure. This study explores how fear of evaluation affects online self-disclosure and examines how this relationship is moderated by protective face orientation in the Chinese context. A total of 750 Chinese WeChat users constituted the sample for a questionnaire-based analysis and regression analysis. The results showed that both fear of positive evaluation and fear of negative evaluation had a significant negative effect on the amount of online self-disclosure and a significant positive effect on the depth of online self-disclosure. Protective face orientation had a moderating effect on the relationship between fear of evaluation and online self-disclosure for both the amount and depth of online self-disclosure. Our findings suggest that social network site (SNS) users' fear of evaluation can be attributed to their cognitive attitude toward the external environment, and the loss of face in the Chinese context can be included in the social context.

Partners' Support During Good Times: Associations With Fears of Positive and Negative Evaluation

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (8) ◽  
pp. 559-581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tara Zahavi ◽  
Eran Bar-Kalifa ◽  
Haran Sened ◽  
Eshkol Rafaeli
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Negative Evaluation ◽  
Romantic Couples ◽  
Positive Events ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Negatively Associated ◽  
Core Components ◽  
Fear Of Positive Evaluation

Capitalization interactions within romantic couples, in which they share positive events with each other, are significantly tied to their satisfaction and overall wellbeing. Recent work suggests that social anxiety is negatively associated with beneficial capitalization interactions (i.e., making capitalization bids and responding with active and constructive responses). To further investigate this understanding, we offer a deeper and differentiating look at two core components of social anxiety: fears of positive and negative evaluation. In addition, we offer an innovative look at the varying self-disclosures of capitalization recipients, by using a novel index—Relevant Talking Time (RTT) which examines the duration of relevantly disclosing and discussing one's own good event. We reasoned that the two types of evaluative fears might have different connections to capitalization processes, considering provision, receipt, and self-disclosure. Our findings (N = 74; 37 community couples in a lab-videotaped‘ interaction) suggest that high fear of positive evaluation is associated with poorer provision of active-constructive capitalization, whereas high fear of negative evaluation is associated with a reduced disclosers' RTT. In addition, our results interestingly demonstrate that disclosers' RTT is tied to their partners' anxiety characteristics as well. We discuss the possible implications and explanations of our findings.

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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