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Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale (BFNE), ready to run

A 12-item short form assessing apprehension and distress about being negatively evaluated by others.

12 items · 5-point Likert scale

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Read-only. Nothing is saved until you have an account. Then the BFNE is imported into a new study with its full item wording, in the structure shown below.

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Item wording for the BFNE is available inside Folio Surveyor, subject to the instrument's licensing. The structure below (its sections, items and response scale) is what gets built for you.

The instrument

12 items

Reverse-scored: items 2, 4, 7 and 10. Surveyor scores them for you.

Each item is answered on this scale:

Not at all characteristic of meSlightly characteristic of meModerately characteristic of meVery characteristic of meExtremely characteristic of me

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