Study the relationship between fear of negative evaluation, social connectedness, loneliness among individuals who are living away from home

The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between fear of negative evaluation, social connectedness, and loneliness among individuals living away from their native place for education or employment. Living away from one's native place is always challenging, and individuals often face psychological problems in such situations. Fear of negative evaluation is anxiety that a person faces when he/she is evaluated negatively by other people. Social connectedness is a measure of an individual’s sense of belonging and closeness, whereas loneliness is a personal feeling of isolation from the community. The research design that has been used here is a quantitative correlational research design, and the sample size for the study is 350 participants living away from their native place for the purpose of education or employment. The psychological scale that measures fear of negative evaluation, social connectedness, and loneliness is used in this study. The results showed that there was a negative correlation between fear of negative evaluation and social connectedness (r = -0.584, p < 0.001), a positive correlation between fear of negative evaluation and loneliness (r = 0.482, p < 0.001), and a negative correlation between social connectedness and loneliness (r = -0.657, p < 0.001. The results of this study offered evidence to support all of the research hypotheses, and a significant relationship between fear of negative evaluation, social connectedness, and loneliness was established in the away-from-home population.