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The effects of Behavioral Inhibition and Parental Psychological Control on Social Anxiety: the mediating role of Negative Self-concept and Need for reassurance from others

  • Clinical Psychology in Korea: Research and Practice
  • 2019, 5(1), pp.91-115
  • DOI : 10.15842/CPKJOURNAL.PUB.5.1.91
  • Publisher : Korean Clinical Psychology Association
  • Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science > Clinical Psychology
  • Received : November 29, 2018
  • Accepted : January 22, 2019
  • Published : March 31, 2019

Kyung Ran Byun 1 KIM, EUN JUNG 1

1아주대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

This study examined whether negative self-concept and need for reassurance from others sequentially mediate the relationship among behavioral inhibition, parental psychological control and social anxiety in college students. To examine this hypothesis, 285 college students completed the Retrospective Self-Report Inhibition(RSRI), Psychological Control Scale-Youth Self-Report(PCS-YSR), Negative Concept of Social Self(NCSS), the Revised Martin-Larsen Approval Motivation Scale(RMLAM), and Social Phobia Scale(SPS). The results indicated that behavioral inhibition had a direct effect on negative self-concept, need for reassurance from others and social anxiety; at the same time, it had an indirect effect on social anxiety that was mediated by negative self-concept and need for reassurance from others. Maternal psychological control only had an indirect effect on social anxiety, mediated by negative self-concept and need for reassurance from others. These results suggest significant clinical implications for therapeutic interventions for social anxiety, indicating the importance of considering various factors interacting with behavioral inhibition in the generation of social anxiety.

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