2020, Vol.6, No.3

Clinical Psychology in Korea: Research and Practice 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.83

pISSN : 2466-0787
https://journal.kci.go.kr/cpkjournal

Behavioral activation/inhibition systems and self-control are associated with a wide range of psychological disorders. The purpose of this study is to understand the psychological mechanisms underlying many psychological problems, especially the role of behavioral activation/inhibition systems and self-control in psychological problems. In particular, it sought to empirically verify whether two-mode models of self-regulation proposed by Carver et al. (2008) could explain various forms of psychological maladjustment. For this purpose, the present study explored the relationship of behavioral inhibition system(BIS), behavioral activation system(BAS), self-control, internalization problems (e.g., depression, anxiety), and externalization problems (e.g., aggression). A total of 435 undergraduate participants completed BIS/BAS Scale, Brief Self-Control Scale, Aggression Questionnaire, Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. The results showed that the behavioral inhibition and behavioral activation systems have significant correlations with depression, anxiety, and aggression. Furthermore, the behavioral inhibition system, behavioral activation system, and self-control significantly predicted depression, state anxiety and aggression differently. Finally, self-control significantly moderated the relationship between the behavioral inhibition system and depression, and the relationship between the behavioral inhibition system and state anxiety. However, regarding the relationship between the behavioral activation system and aggression, the moderating effect of self-control was not significant. Based on these results, the implications and limitations of this study are discussed.

To understand and alleviate social anxiety (SA) experienced by covertly narcissistic people (CN), we explored the mediating role of rejection sensitivity (RS) as a possible mechanism and investigated whether dispositional mindfulness (DM) could moderate this mediating process. We administered the Pathological Narcissism Inventory, the Rejection Sensitivity Questionnaire, the Social Interaction Anxiety Scale, and the Korean version of the Five-Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire to 391 cyber university students and community adults through an online survey. RS was found to have partially mediated the influence of CN on SA. Furthermore, the indirect effect via RS on SA differed according to the level of one’s DM, which thereby supported the assumed moderated mediation effect. When the level of DM was high, the adverse influence on SA through RS decreased. The clinical implications of our findings are discussed, and the limitations of this study, along with directions for further studies, are presented.

This research sought to verify the moderated mediating effect of self-soothing ability on the relationship between socially prescribed perfectionism and academic stress through post-event rumination. To this end, 302 male and female college students were assessed using the socially prescribed perfectionism scale, the post-event rumination scale, the academic stress scale, and the self-soothing ability scale. Data were analyzed using SPSS software version 23.0 and SPSS Macro, and the results were as follows: first, socially prescribed perfectionism, post-event rumination, and academic stress showed positive correlations with each other, while self-soothing ability showed negative correlations with other variables. Second, the partially mediating effect of post-event rumination on the process of socially prescribed perfectionism was proved to affect academic stress. Third, as to the effects of post-event rumination on academic stress, the adjustment effect was found to vary according to the level of self-soothing ability. Finally, the moderated mediating effect of self-soothing ability was verified. The indirect effect of post-event rumination was that the higher the level of self-soothing ability, the lower the level of academic stress. This study has provided empirical evidence for utilizing the self-soothing ability factors in therapeutic scenarios by verifying the mediating effect of post-event rumination on the relationship between socially prescribed perfectionism and academic stress, and by identifying the therapeutic factors that can control these influences. Based on these results, we discuss the implications and limitations of this study and present directions for further studies.