Fear of positive evaluation: The neglected fear domain in social anxiety

The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Social Anxiety Disorder

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 433-453

  Weeks, Justin W ^a,b   Howell, Ashley N ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Center for Evaluation and Treatment of Anxiety   (United States)

Author keywords

Bivalent fear of evaluation model of social anxiety; Concerns of social reprisal; Disqualification of positive social outcomes; Fear of negative evaluation; Fear of positive evaluation; Social anxiety disorder; Social phobia

Indexed keywords

EID: 85104383868     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118653920.ch20     Document Type: Chapter

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