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Research Article
Exploring the latent structure of two cognitive components of social anxiety: taxometric analyses of fears of negative and positive evaluation
Article first published online: 9 DEC 2008
DOI: 10.1002/da.20414
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Weeks, J. W., Norton, P. J. and Heimberg, R. G. (2009), Exploring the latent structure of two cognitive components of social anxiety: taxometric analyses of fears of negative and positive evaluation. Depress. Anxiety, 26: E40–E48. doi: 10.1002/da.20414
Publication History
- Issue published online: 28 JAN 2009
- Article first published online: 9 DEC 2008
- Manuscript Accepted: 19 SEP 2007
- Manuscript Revised: 6 SEP 2007
- Manuscript Received: 18 MAY 2007
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Keywords:
- social anxiety;
- social phobia;
- fear of negative evaluation;
- fear of positive evaluation;
- taxometric analysis
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. Results and 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. Depression and Anxiety, 2009. © 2008 Wiley-Liss, Inc.