The role of fear of positive evaluation in social anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

SI Cook, S Moore, C Bryant… - … Psychology: Science and …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is often associated with fear of negative evaluation (FNE).
More recently, fear of positive evaluation (FPE) has increasingly been recognized as a fear …

Fear of positive evaluation and social anxiety: A systematic review of trait-based findings

JW Fredrick, AM Luebbe - Journal of Affective Disorders, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Although fear of negative evaluation (FNE) has long been recognized as a core
cognitive bias in social anxiety, fear of positive evaluation (FPE) has received considerable …

Malaise with praise: A narrative review of 10 years of research on the concept of fear of positive evaluation in social anxiety

J Reichenberger, J Blechert - Depression and anxiety, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Social anxiety is characterized by a fear of being negatively evaluated by others (ie, Fear of
Negative Evaluation [FNE]). In 2008, Weeks, Heimberg, and Rodebaugh proposed Fear of …

Bivalent fears of evaluation: A developmentally-informed, multi-informant, and multi-modal examination of associations with safety behaviors

SJ Racz, N Qasmieh, A De Los Reyes - Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 2024 - Elsevier
Fears of negative (FNE) and positive (FPE) evaluation and safety behaviors feature
prominently in cognitive-behavioral models of social anxiety. However, we have a poor …

Why So Lonely? The direct and indirect associations between developmental trajectories of fear of negative evaluation, prosocial behavior and loneliness in …

X Liu, J Yue, Y Yang - Journal of youth and adolescence, 2024 - Springer
Fear of negative evaluation and prosocial behavior have been identified as predictive
factors influencing the development of loneliness in adolescence, representing typical …

[HTML][HTML] Fear of positive evaluation and social affiliation in social anxiety disorder and major depression

M Rassaby, IG Spaulding, CT Taylor - Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 2024 - Elsevier
Fear of positive evaluation (FPE) is posited as a core feature of social anxiety disorder
(SAD); however, little is known about its role in interpersonal functioning. We examined …

Fear of negative evaluation modulates the processing of social evaluative feedback with different valence and contexts

Y Zhang, Y Li, X Mai - Cerebral Cortex, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Fear of negative evaluation (FNE) is a susceptible and maintaining factor of social anxiety
disorders. However, the question, how people process negative evaluation is influenced by …

Convergent, incremental, and criterion‐related validity of multi‐informant assessments of adolescents' fears of negative and positive evaluation

JN Karp, BA Makol, LM Keeley… - Clinical Psychology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Adolescents who experience social anxiety tend to hold fears about negative evaluations
(eg, taunting) and may also hold fears about positive evaluations (eg, praise from a teacher) …

Relationships between psychoevolutionary fear of evaluation, cognitive distortions, and social anxiety symptoms: A preliminary structural equation model

SI Cook, D Meyer, SR Knowles - Australian Journal of Psychology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Social anxiety disorder is a mental health condition that affects 4.7% of Australians each
year. The complex interplay between psychoevolutionary and cognitive models has become …

Fear of positive evaluation differentially predicts social anxiety: a six-month longitudinal panel study

M Peker, K Akkuş - Current Psychology, 2024 - Springer
This study investigated whether (a) fear of negative evaluation (FNE) and fear of positive
evaluation (FPE) prospectively predict the other,(b) FPE predicts social anxiety controlling …