Two-Factor Structure of Social-Evaluative Fear in Children: Distinguishing Fear of Positive and Negative Evaluation in Social Anxiety

Social anxiety is characterized by fear, nervousness, and avoidance in social situations and can emerge as early as childhood. Recent theoretical models have proposed a two-factor model of social-evaluative concerns in social anxiety, including fear of negative evaluation (FNE), as well as fear of positive evaluation (FPE). Previous work in adolescents and adults has provided empirical support for this two-factor structure of social-evaluative …