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The Mediating Effect of Public Self-Consciousness, Rejection Sensitivity, and Ambivalence over Emotional Expressiveness in the Relationship between Separation-Individuation and Dependent Depressive Vulnerability among College Students

  • Clinical Psychology in Korea: Research and Practice
  • 2018, 4(1), pp.1-25
  • DOI : 10.15842/CPKJOURNAL.PUB.4.1.1
  • Publisher : Korean Clinical Psychology Association
  • Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science > Clinical Psychology
  • Received : October 11, 2017
  • Accepted : January 8, 2018

Song, Jun Hyeon 1 Baek Yong Mae 2

1대구가톨릭대학교 심리학과
2대구가톨릭대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to investigate the structural relationship and mediating effects of variables affecting dependent depression vulnerability in college students in the secondary separation-individualization periods and to verify whether gender differences were present in the structural relationship. To achieve this goal, the public self-consciousness, rejection sensitivity, and ambivalence over emotional expressiveness were selected as mediators affecting dependent depression vulnerability, and the relationship between variables was analyzed through the structural equation model(SEM). The main findings of this study were as follows. First, separation-individualization had a negative relationship with public self-consciousness, rejection sensitivity, ambivalence over emotional expressiveness, and dependent depression vulnerability. Second, public self-consciousness, rejection sensitivity, and ambivalence over emotional expressiveness mediated in the relationship between separation-individuation and dependent depression vulnerability. Third, the level of separation- individualization was lower in women than in men, and the levels of rejection sensitivity and dependency depression were higher. Lastly, women may present a high dependent depressive vulnerability, even if they have a high level of separation-individuation. Based on these results, the academic and clinical implications of this study were discussed according to the object relations theory.

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