Social anxiety in people with facial palsy: The role of fear of negative evaluation and appearance-fixing behaviour.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The current study aimed to explore whether people with facial palsy experienced more social appearance anxiety, social anxiety, fear of negative evaluation, and engaged in more appearance-fixing behaviour than controls without facial palsy. The secondary aim was to investigate whether fear of negative evaluation and appearance-fixing behaviour were predictive of social appearance anxiety in people with facial palsy.

Method

People with facial palsy (n = 78) and people without facial palsy (n = 86) completed online questionnaires with measures of social anxiety, social appearance anxiety, fear of negative evaluation, and appearance-fixing behaviour.

Results

The facial palsy group experienced significantly greater social appearance anxiety, social anxiety, and

SUBMITTER: Dring JAE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12402973 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature