{"id":221,"date":"2012-07-06T13:14:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T08:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rastin-clinic.com\/?page_id=221"},"modified":"2012-07-06T13:14:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T08:44:19","slug":"the-brief-fear-of-negative-evaluation-scale-bfne","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/rastin-clinic.ir\/index.php\/the-brief-fear-of-negative-evaluation-scale-bfne\/","title":{"rendered":"the-brief-fear-of-negative-evaluation-scale-bfne"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p style='direction:ltr;text-align:left'>\n<strong><br \/>\nThe Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale (BFNE): translation and validation study of the Iranian version<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nAzadeh Tavoli, Mahdiyeh Melyani, Maryam Bakhtiari, GholamHossein Ghaedi and Ali Montazeri<br \/>\nAbstract<br \/>\n Background: The Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale (BFNE) is a commonly used instrument to measure social anxiety. This study aimed to translate and to test the reliability and validity of the BFNE in Iran.<br \/>\nMethods: The English language version of the BFNE was translated into Persian (Iranian language) and was used in this study. The questionnaire was administered to a consecutive sample of 235 students with (n = 33, clinical group) and without social phobia (n = 202, non-clinical group). In addition to the BFNE, two standard instruments were used to measure social phobia severity: the Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN), and the Social Interaction Anxiety Scale (SIAS). All participants completed a brief background information questionnaire, the SPIN, the SIAS and the BFNE scales. Statistical analysis was performed to test the reliability and validity of the BFNE.<br \/>\n Results: In all 235 students were studied (111 male and 124 female). The mean age for non-clinical group was 22.2 (SD = 2.1) years and for clinical sample it was 22.4 (SD = 1.8) years. Cronbach&#8217;s alpha coefficient (to test reliability) was acceptable for both non-clinical and clinical samples (\u03b1 = 0.90 and 0.82 respectively). In addition, 3-week test-retest reliability was performed in non-clinical sample and the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) was quite high (ICC = 0.71). Validity as performed using convergent and discriminant validity showed satisfactory results. The questionnaire correlated well with established measures of social phobia such as the SPIN (r = 0.43, p < 0.001) and the SIAS (r = 0.54, p < 0.001). Also the BFNE discriminated well between men and women with and without social phobia in the expected direction. Factor analysis supported a two- factor solution corresponding to positive and reverse-worded items.\n Conclusion: This validation study of the Iranian version of BFNE proved that it is an acceptable, reliable and valid measure of social phobia. However, since the scale showed a two-factor structure and this does not confirm to the theoretical basis for the BFNE, thus we suggest the use of the BFNE-II when it becomes available in Iran. The validation study of the BFNE-II is in progress.\n<strong><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/rastin-clinic.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/The-Brief-Fear-of-Negative-Evaluation-Scale-BFNE-translation-and.pdf'>\u062f\u0627\u0646\u0644\u0648\u062f \u0641\u0627\u06cc\u0644 \u0645\u0637\u0644\u0628<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale (BFNE): translation and validation study of the Iranian version Azadeh Tavoli, Mahdiyeh Melyani, Maryam Bakhtiari, GholamHossein Ghaedi and Ali Montazeri Abstract Background: The Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale (BFNE) is a commonly used instrument to measure social anxiety. This study aimed to translate and to test the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rastin-clinic.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/221"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rastin-clinic.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rastin-clinic.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rastin-clinic.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rastin-clinic.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rastin-clinic.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rastin-clinic.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}