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