European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education, Volume 14, Issue 11
2024 November - 8 articles
Cover Story: Current diagnostic systems identify fear of negative evaluation as a key feature of social anxiety. In our data, however, fear of positive evaluations by others was also found to contribute to social anxiety while fears of social reprisal and disqualification of positive outcomes mediated the effects of both evaluative fears. These findings align with evolutionary theories of social anxiety which attribute evaluative fears to an overactive threat–safety system that exaggerates the negative social consequences of evaluations by others. Thus, fear of negative evaluation is distressing because it activates concerns about rejection and social exclusion. Paradoxically, positive evaluation is also feared because public success draws attention to the socially anxious person, increasing the fear that others will see them as a threat and seek to exclude them. View this paper - Issues are regarded as officially published after their release is announced to the table of contents alert mailing list .
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