Fear of Negative Evaluation, Trait Anxiety, and Judgment Bias in Adults who Stutter

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 498-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelley B. Brundage ◽  
Katherine L. Winters ◽  
Janet M. Beilby
Keyword(s):  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Negative Evaluation ◽  
Judgment Bias ◽  
Adults Who Stutter

Relationship between Fear of Negative Evaluation and Anxiety

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ganesh Kumar J ◽  
Athilakshmi R ◽  
Maharishi R ◽  
Maya R
Keyword(s):  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Negative Evaluation ◽  
State Trait Anxiety Inventory ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Anxiety And Fear

Anxiety is an important psychological phenomenon which influences everyone’s life. In other words everyone experience some sort of anxiety in a day to day life. Many people experience anxiety when they speak in front of public. For most people especially, students these feelings of anxiety start before they begin to speak and continue throughout the speech but subside immediately after the speech ends. Some may feel only slightly nervous whereas another may feel faded and nauseated. Like anxiety, fear of negative evaluation also one of an important psychological factors which negatively influences performance of students. With this background, the present study attempted to understand the relationship between these psychological factors of students deeply. A study was done at VIT University-Chennai among 64 students studying in different branches of engineering. Samples of the study are both hostel dwellers and day scholars. Of the 64 students, 33 were female and 31 were male, who were selected through simple random sampling method and survey research design was adopted. The tools used in this study are Fear of Negative Evaluation (FNE; Watson & Friend, 1969) and State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI; Speilberger, Gorsuch, Lushene, Vagg& Jacobs, 1983). The results showed that there is a significant positive relationship between anxiety and fear of negative evaluation. In other words the fear of negativism and State Trait Anxiety correlated highly positively.

Safety Behaviors and Stuttering

2017 ◽  
Vol 60 (5) ◽  
pp. 1246-1253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn Lowe ◽  
Fjola Helgadottir ◽  
Ross Menzies ◽  
Rob Heard ◽  
Sue O'Brian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Negative Evaluation ◽  
Safety Behaviors ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Negative Cognitions ◽  
Socially Anxious ◽  
Therapy Program ◽  
Potential Safety ◽  
Social Encounters ◽  
Adults Who Stutter

Purpose Those who are socially anxious may use safety behaviors during feared social interactions to prevent negative outcomes. Safety behaviors are associated with anxiety maintenance and poorer treatment outcomes because they prevent fear extinction. Social anxiety disorder is often comorbid with stuttering. Speech pathologists reported in a recent publication (Helgadottir, Menzies, Onslow, Packman, & O'Brian, 2014a) that they often recommended procedures for clients that could be safety behaviors. This study investigated the self-reported use of safety behaviors by adults who stutter. Method Participants were 133 adults who stutter enrolled in an online cognitive-behavior therapy program. Participants completed a questionnaire about their use of potential safety behaviors when anxious during social encounters. Correlations were computed between safety behaviors and pretreatment scores on measures of fear of negative evaluation and negative cognitions. Results Of 133 participants, 132 reported that they used safety behaviors. Many of the safety behaviors correlated with higher scores for fear of negative evaluation and negative cognitions. Conclusions Adults who stutter report using safety behaviors, and their use is associated with pretreatment fear of negative evaluation and unhelpful thoughts about stuttering. These results suggest that the negative effects of safety behaviors may extend to those who stutter, and further research is needed.

scholarly journals Are you Watching Me? Interacting Effects of Fear of Negative Evaluation and Social Context on Cognitive Performance

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin L. Maresh ◽  
Bethany A. Teachman ◽  
James A. Coan
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Cognitive Performance ◽  
Task Difficulty ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Negative Evaluation ◽  
Socially Anxious ◽  
Improved Accuracy

Socially anxious individuals exhibit cognitive performance impairments; it is unclear whether this is due to trait differences in abilities or effects of the experimental context. This study sought to determine how social context, individual differences in fear of negative evaluation (FNE), and task difficulty interact to influence working memory performance as indicated by effectiveness (accuracy) and efficiency (reaction times). Participants (N = 61) performed the n-back task at 2-back and 3-back difficulty levels under three conditions: alone (“Anonymous”), in presence of a non-evaluative experimenter (“Presence”), and under explicit performance evaluation by the experimenter (“Threat”). Overall, participants showed improved accuracy during Threat, but only on 2-back trials. FNE was positively associated with longer reaction times during Threat on 3-back trials. FNE did not relate to accuracy, suggesting that threat-related impairments tied to social anxiety may alter efficiency rather than effectiveness. Thus, social anxiety may elicit cognitive performance impairments even in minimally evaluative environments.

scholarly journals Assessing the Straightforwardly-Worded Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale for Differential Item Functioning Across Gender and Ethnicity

2014 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 306-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jared K. Harpole ◽  
Cheri A. Levinson ◽  
Carol M. Woods ◽  
Thomas L. Rodebaugh ◽  
Justin W. Weeks ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Differential Item Functioning ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Negative Evaluation ◽  
Item Functioning
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