"evaluative situation" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to an instance in which someone needs to make a judgment or decide between different options. For example, "My boss put me in an evaluative situation when he asked me to decide which project to take on."
It is likely that the specific effect on fear of negative evaluations is due to the training materials being confined to social evaluative situations.
This is particularly true for situations related to decision uncertainty, and other evaluative situations.
Boelen and Reijntjes (2009) argue that safety behaviors and self-focused attention decrease the intense feelings of uncertainty that occur in social evaluative situations.
Students with high test anxiety feel tense in evaluative situations [ 21, 22] and commonly obtain poorer test scores and grades [ 23– 25].
The CBM-I training focused on modifying the interpretation of emotionally ambiguous social scenarios, related to the kind of anxieties thought likely to be associated with beginning university; social evaluative situations (such as whether one will be liked by one's new friends) and performance evaluative situations (such as how well one will be able to get on with one's studies).
A person with social phobia would learn to use alcohol as a safety behaviour and avoidance strategy in social or evaluative situations in an attempt to make the situation easier to cope with.
When a social-evaluative situation is encountered, such beliefs contribute to the experience of anxiety and an attentional shift to the self.
Participants were not asked to think about a social-evaluative situation or relate the items to a social interaction at the time when they rated the items.
In Rapee and Heimberg's (1997) model, on entering a social-evaluative situation, an individual with social phobia compares his or her mental self-representation with what he or she thinks is expected by other people in the situation.
Although this study found positive relations between self-reported pubertal development and the responses of the HPA axis to a social-evaluative situation, stronger results may be obtained using physician ratings of pubertal development, as these are more reliable.
