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32nd. International Congress of Psychology, Praha, Czech Republic, 18 - 23 July 2021, (Unpublished)
The aim of this study was to measure the predictive effect of self-perception on social anxiety and to investigate whether there were mediating roles of fear of evaluation (fear of positive and negative evaluation) in this effect. The sample of the study consisted of Turkish university students attending undergraduate education in various faculties and departments. The participants were administered the Social Comparison Scale (SCS), Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS), Fear of Positive Evaluation Scale (FPE), and Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale-II (BFNE-II). The bootstrapping method was used to measure the parallel multiple mediation effect in the study. As a result of the analyses, the relationships between self-perception, fear of negative evaluation, fear of positive evaluation and social anxiety were found to be significant. On the other hand, according to the findings of the study, it was identified that fear of negative evaluation and fear of positive evaluation had a significant parallel multiple mediating effect on the relationship between self-perception and social anxiety within the determined confidence interval. The results of the parallel multiple mediation analysis suggested that increased negative self-perception, fear of negative evaluation, and fear of positive evaluation were associated with increased levels of social anxiety symptoms. These findings supported the notion that when considering social anxiety, it might be more appropriate to mention a general concept of fears of evaluation, including fear of positive evaluation as well as fear of negative evaluation.
Keywords: social anxiety, fear of negative evaluation, fear of positive evaluation, self-perception