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Body Image 14 (2015) 20–28 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Body Image j o u rn a l h o m e p a g e : w w w. elsev /locate/bodyimage Social anxiety and associations with eating psychopathology: Mediating effects of fears of evaluation Andrew R. Menatti a , Lindsey B. Hopkins DeBoer b , Justin W. Weeks a,∗ , Richard G. Heimberg c a Centerfor Evaluation and Treatment of Anxiety, Ohio University, Athens, OH, United States b San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, United States c Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Recent work suggests unique relations among features of social anxiety disorder and eating disorder Received 12 June 2014 pathology. Thus, it may be important to determine specific facets of social anxiety that account for the Received in revised form 18 February 2015 relation between it and eating disorders. Given the similarities in social-evaluative concerns in both sets Accepted 19 February 2015 of symptoms, we hypothesized that fears of both positive and negative evaluation would each inde- pendently account for the relationship between social anxiety symptoms and eating pathology among Keywords: college females. Results were partially supportive of hypotheses. Fear of negative evaluation indepen- Social anxiety dently accounted for a significant portion of the relationship betw