Abstract:

The purpose of this study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale FNE related to its validity and reliability on a young adult sample The scale was administrated to 245 candidates 129 female 116 male applied to the entrance exam of Physical Education and Sports College of Adana Test retest reliability study was conducted with 75 of these candidates who entered the college FNE is a self report scale composed of 30 items in a true false format In order to test the convergent validity of FNE the scale was applied with the Test Anxiety Inventory N=245 and Trait Anxiety Inventory N=68 Analyses revealed that the 24 of the 30 items have biserial item total score correlation coefficients ranged between 19 and 72 with a mean of 42 The total score obtained with these 24 items of FNE was significantly correlated with the scores of Test Anxiety Inventory 25 and Trait Anxiety Inventory 57 No significant gender differences were obtained on the scores of FNE The internal consistency coefficient KR 20 for the scale was 72 whereas split half reliability coefficient was 71 The test retest reliability coefficient of the scale was 71 Results indicated that regarding its limitations the 24 item of the FNE has adequate psychometric properties to assess fear of negative evaluation Keywords:Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale validity reliability

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