Secondly, it could be proposed that the social concerns subscale may not be measuring fear of publically observable symptoms, which could then partially explain the unexpected findings that social concerns was not related to any of the symptom constellation of three anxiety disorders, especially social anxiety, or depression. Perhaps, in the present sample the description of the items in the social concerns subscale include either physical concerns or mental incapacitation or both. The overlap of items could result in social concerns contributing little to no unique variance in predicting the anxious and depressive symptoms yielding social concerns to not be a significant predictor of any of the anxiety or depressive symptoms. The mental incapacitation subscale together with physical concerns subscale may cover the construct of fear of publically observable symptoms. Perhaps mental incapacitation may be the more prominent underlying belief associated with symptoms of social anxiety rather than social concerns in both men and women. Additionally in men, both mental incapacitation and physical concerns may be beliefs underlying social anxiety symptoms.