Fear of Negative, Positive Evaluation and Perfectionism in Social Anxiety

The present study was carried out to compare Fear of negative, positive evaluation and Perfectionism in social anxiety. A total of 864 students of universities in Mahalat city were selected by random cluster method and evaluated using Social Phobia Inventory (SPI) (Conor,2000) and Negative and Positive perfectionism Scale (Terry-Short, 1995), Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale (Lury, 1983).a cording to scores of Social Phobia Inventory, students were divided in two group (including 31 students with social anxiety and 31 students without social anxiety considered as control group). Univariate analysis of variance(ANOVA) were used for group comparisons, Associations between Fear of Negative Evaluation, negative and positive perfectionism and Multiple Regression analysis was performed to determine predictors of social anxiety. In general, Results showed that there are significant differences between social anxious students and normal group in fear of negative evaluation, negative and positive perfectionism. Students with social anxiety reported more fear of negative evaluation, negative perfectionism and less positive perfectionism. Finally this study revealed positive perfectionism is main predictor of social anxiety.