Exploring the latent structure of two cognitive components of social anxiety: Taxometric analyses of fears of negative and positive evaluation

Depression and Anxiety

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Weeks, Justin W ^a,c   Norton, Peter J ^b   Heimberg, Richard G ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fear of negative evaluation; Fear of positive evaluation; Social anxiety; Social phobia; Taxometric analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COLLEGE STUDENT; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EVALUATION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL PHOBIA;

ADOLESCENT; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STUDENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63849137159     PISSN: 10914269     EISSN: 15206394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/da.20414     Document Type: Article

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