ArticleInternational journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHP
From fears of evaluation to social anxiety: The longitudinal relationships and neural basis in healthy young adults.
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- The relationship between fear of negative evaluation and social anxiety: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC psychology · 2026Pooled it
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- Music performance anxiety: evolutionary, developmental, and psychodynamic perspectives.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Review
- Conditioned generalization of social anxiety effects based on positive and negative social evaluations.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The impact of social phobia tendency on positive affect: the role of perceived control and its neural correlates.Brain structure & function · 2025Article
- Error-Related Memory Biases Are Specific to Social Stimuli for Socially Anxious Individuals.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- The relationship between childhood trauma and social anxiety in college students: the mediating role of evaluation fear.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Subgroups based on fears of evaluation exhibited different social anxiety levels.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- The Effect of Self-Esteem on Mobile Phone Addiction Among College Students: Sequential Mediating Effects of Online Upward Social Comparison and Social Anxiety.Psychology research and behavior management · 2025Article
- Novel behavioral tasks for the measurement of social motivation in mice: a comparison across strains.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- Determining the Effect of Fear of Illness and Virus Evaluation and Quality of Life on Diagnosis of Social Phobia in Patients With Chronic Disease: Using Machine Learning Approaches.Florence Nightingale journal of nursing · 2024Article
- Pre-COVID brain network topology prospectively predicts social anxiety alterations during the COVID-19 pandemic.Neurobiology of stress · 2023Article
- Transitioning from perceived stress to mental health: The mediating role of self-control in a longitudinal investigation with MRI scans.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
Background: Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a common mental health problem, and its core cognitive manifestation is the persistent fear of being evaluated, including both negatively (FNE) and positively (FPE). This study aimed to examine the longitudinal relationships of FNE, FPE and SAD and explore their neural basis. Methods: Three samples were retrieved in this study. First, the data of 649 college students who completed a survey and fMRI scan were used to explore the neural basis of FNE, FPE, and SAD symptoms. Next, the data of 450 participants who completed the same survey twice were used to examine the longitudinal relationships of the variables. Finally, the overlapping of the two samples ( Results: Both FNE and FPE predicted SAD, and SAD also predicted FPE. The neural signals of subregions in prefrontal cortex were correlated with the scores of FNE, FPE and SAD. Abnormal prefrontal signals influenced SAD symptoms via fears of evaluation. Conclusions: Our findings explain the behavioral and neural underpinnings of social anxiety from a fear of evaluation angle. This contributes to a better theorical understanding of SAD and clinical practice.
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