The hierarchical model of social interaction anxiety and depression: The critical roles of fears of evaluation

Self-forgiveness in Japanese adolescents.

“…While not predicted, this is consistent with the suggestion of Wang et al (2012) that negative evaluation from others might create the biased schema of personal failure, which increases one's depressive symptoms. Combining the positive associations of self-punitiveness with fear of negative evaluation and depressive symptoms, fear of negative evaluation had the mediation effect on the positive association between self-punitiveness and depressive symptoms.…”

“…This result might be explained by previous studies showing that fear of negative evaluation is significantly associated with social anxiety (e.g., Cloninger et al, 1993;Wang et al, 2012), and a cross-cultural study suggesting that fear of negative evaluation may have a greater role on Japanese individuals' anxiety symptoms than these symptoms of individuals in the U.S. (Norasakkunkit et al, 2012). Therefore, the mediation effect of fear of negative evaluation on the relationship between self-punitiveness and anxiety symptoms suggested that fear of negative evaluation may be one mechanism by which self-punitiveness increased anxiety symptoms.…”

“…The relationships of fear of negative evaluation to anxiety and depression were further examined by Wang, Hsu, Chiu, and Liang (2012) suggesting that fear of negative evaluation is a significant characteristic of social interaction anxiety. Fear of negative evaluation significantly accounted for a variance in social interaction anxiety and depression; however, the variance accounted in social interaction anxiety was much larger than the variance accounted for in depression.…”

“…Fear of negative evaluation significantly accounted for a variance in social interaction anxiety and depression; however, the variance accounted in social interaction anxiety was much larger than the variance accounted for in depression. Wang et al (2012) explained that fear of negative evaluation was related to depression even though there is no direct theoretical insight into that relationship. They suggested that negative evaluation from others might produce the biased schema of personal failure, which, in turn, deteriorates individuals' depressive mood.…”

TelEMA: a low-cost and user-friendly telephone assessment platform

“…We expected state measures gathered via TelEMA to correlate with trait measures of social anxiety, as would be expected given previous findings regarding trait and state relationships with social anxiety (Wang, Hsu, Chiu, & Liang, 2012). More specifically, we expected that trait social anxiety (measured via paper and pencil) would correlate with state measures of social anxiety, depression, and negative affect.…”