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- Title
Exploring the latent structure of two cognitive components of social anxiety: taxometric analyses of fears of negative and positive evaluation.
- Authors
Weeks, Justin W.; Norton, Peter J.; Heimberg, Richard G.
- 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.
- Subjects
SOCIAL anxiety; ANXIETY; COGNITION disorders; UNDERGRADUATES; MENTAL depression
- Publication
Depression & Anxiety (1091-4269), 2009, Vol 26, Issue 2, pE40
- ISSN
1091-4269
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/da.20414