Impact Of Self Concept, Body Dissatisfaction And Gender On Student's Fear Of Negative Evaluation

CHAPTER ONEIntroductionWatson and Friend (1969) defined fear of negative evaluation as apprehension aboutothers’ evaluation, distress over their negative evaluation, and the expectation that others wouldevaluate oneself negatively. Carleton et al, (2006) defined fear of negative evaluation as theapprehension and distress arising from concern about being judged despairingly or hostilely byothers.Basically people with a high degree of fear of negative evaluation (which can be measured withFear of Negative Evaluation scale developed by Watson and friend) are overly concerned withhow they are judg…