Department of Education, The University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia 2308

We examined the loci of social anxiety in a sample of 385 Australian adult subjects (186 men and 199 women, mean age 30.63 years). Responses to the Social Avoidance and Distress Scale, the Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale (Watson & Friend, 1969), and the Public and Private Self-Consciousness Sc...

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Published inThe journal of psychology Vol. 128; no. 4; pp. 447 - 454
Main Authors Monfries, Melissa M., Kafer, Norman F.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Taylor & Francis Group 01.07.1994
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Summary:We examined the loci of social anxiety in a sample of 385 Australian adult subjects (186 men and 199 women, mean age 30.63 years). Responses to the Social Avoidance and Distress Scale, the Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale (Watson & Friend, 1969), and the Public and Private Self-Consciousness Scale (Fenigstein, Scheier, & Buss, 1975) were intercorrelated. The results suggested that for some socially anxious people who are privately shy, the locus of their anxiety is cognitive, whereas for others who are more concerned with performance, the locus is behavioral.
ISSN:0022-3980
1940-1019
DOI:10.1080/00223980.1994.9712751