About social demonstration-avoid goals, two findings are noteworthy. First, similar to a recent study with adolescents they were positively, and quite moderately, related to social development goals; second, they appeared not to cancel out, in the same way social demonstration-approach goals did, the positive associations of social development goals to need satisfaction and adaptive coping. These findings perhaps tell something about the role of social demonstration-avoid goals as they seem less detrimental than social demonstration-approach goals. Moreover, taking into consideration that social demonstration-avoid goals associated positively with need satisfaction and adaptive coping and almost marginally positively with need frustration and defensive coping, we assume that, unlike their counterparts in the academic domain (i.e., the performance-avoidance goals), the social demonstration-avoid goals could be less maladaptive than social demonstration-approach goals. In support of this claim has recently found in a sample of adolescent students, social demonstration-avoid goals not to associate positively with negative outcomes or positively with negative ones. However, further research is needed to delineate the relation of social demonstration-avoid goals to optimal functioning as several previous studies have found social demonstration-avoid goals to relate positively to anxiety and internalizing behavior