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Bulletin of Clinical Psychopharmacology, Vol: 21, Supplement: 2, 2011 - www.psikofarmakoloji.org<br />
Poster Presentations<br />
[PP-085] Ref. No: 196<br />
Reliability and validity of Turkish version the Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation<br />
Scale II (BFNE-II) among male patients with alcohol dependency<br />
Cüneyt Evren, Selime Çelik, Reşide Aksoy, Turan Çetin, Müge Ülkü, Sera Yiğiter, Elif Mutlu<br />
Bakırköy Training and Research Hospital for Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Alcohol and Drug Research, Treatment and Training Center (AMATEM), İstanbul, Turkey<br />
E-mail: cuneytevren@yahoo.com<br />
Background and Objective: The construct of fear of negative evaluation consists of feelings of apprehension about others’ evaluations,<br />
distress over these negative evaluations, and the expectation that others will evaluate one negatively (1). The Brief Fear of Negative<br />
Evaluation Scale (BFNE) is a measure of a person’s tolerance for the possibility they might be judged disparagingly or hostilely by others<br />
(2). The aim of this study was to determine the reliability, validity and factorial structure of the Turkish translation of the BFNE-II in male<br />
alcohol dependent inpatients.<br />
Methods: Participants were 155 consecutively admitted male alcohol dependents. Patients were investigated with the BFNE-II, the Social<br />
Phobia Scale (SPS), the Social Interaction Anxiety Scale (SIAS) and the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS). The BFNE-II was repeated in<br />
136 of these 155 patients after 2 weeks.<br />
The BFNE is composed of 12 items describing fearful or worrying cognition. Eight of the twelve items describe the presence of fear or<br />
worrying, while the remaining four items describe the absence of fear or worrying (3). In the BFNE-II (4) reversed items are corrected.<br />
Results: The Turkish version of the BFNE-II was found to be compatible with the original scale. In alcohol dependents the internal<br />
consistency coefficient (Cronbach’s alpha) was 0.91 for the BFNE-II. For each of the items, the corrected item-total correlation values were<br />
between 0.57 and 0.84 (p