title: Psychometric evaluation of the Concerns of Social Reprisal Scale: Further explicating the roots of fear of positive evaluation.
abstract: Fear of positive evaluation (FPE) has been proposed to be an important feature of social anxiety disorder (SAD) and to be rooted, at least partly, in concerns of social reprisal due to positive impressions. In order to formally test this hypothesis, the Concerns of Social Reprisal Scale (CSRS) was developed. The purpose of the present series of studies was to examine the psychometric profile of the CSRS across several independent samples including: a large (n=981) undergraduate sample; a clinical sample of individuals diagnosed with social anxiety disorder (n=27), and a demographically-matched subsample of healthy control participants (n=24). The factorial validity, internal consistency, and construct validity of the CSRS were examined. Results across both studies provided support for the psychometric profile of the CSRS. The implications of concerns of social reprisal for the assessment of social anxiety symptoms, theoretical models of fear of evaluation and SAD, and their potential clinical utility with regard to treating SAD are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Center for Evaluation and Treatment of Anxiety, Department of Psychology, Ohio University, 200 Porter Hall, Athens, OH, 45701, USA. Electronic address: weeksj@ohio.edu.
authors.forename: Justin W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Weeks
authors.affiliation: Center for Evaluation and Treatment of Anxiety, Department of Psychology, Ohio University, 200 Porter Hall, Athens, OH, 45701, USA.
authors.forename: Andrew R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Menatti
authors.affiliation: Center for Evaluation and Treatment of Anxiety, Department of Psychology, Ohio University, 200 Porter Hall, Athens, OH, 45701, USA.
authors.forename: Ashley N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Howell
mesh_terms: D016022:Case-Control Studies; D005239:Fear; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012919:Social Behavior; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Anxiety; Assessment; Concerns of social reprisal; Fear of negative evaluation; Fear of positive evaluation; Social anxiety disorder; Social phobia