title: Exploring the latent structure of two cognitive components of social anxiety: taxometric analyses of fears of negative and positive evaluation.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Recent evidence suggests that social anxiety disorder is best characterized as having a dimensional latent structure.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this study, we examined the latent structure of two cognitive components of social anxiety, fear of negative evaluation (FNE) and fear of positive evaluation (FPE), in a large undergraduate sample. Two taxometric procedures (MAMBAC, Mean Above Minus Below a Cut and MAXEIG, MAXimum EIGenvalue) were performed with indicator sets drawn from self-report measures of FNE and FPE.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Taxometric analyses, as well as comparison analyses utilizing simulated dimensional and taxonic datasets, yielded converging evidence that both FNE and FPE have a dimensional latent structure.
authors.affiliation: Adult Anxiety Clinic of Temple, Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122-6085, USA.
authors.forename: Justin W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Weeks
authors.forename: Peter J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Norton
authors.forename: Richard G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Heimberg
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D005239:Fear; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D011594:Psychometrics; D012928:Social Desirability; D012931:Social Environment; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D055815:Young Adult