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The Relationship between Socially Prescribed Perfectionism and Social Anxiety: The Mediating Roles of Self-blame and Perfectionistic Self-presentation

  • Clinical Psychology in Korea: Research and Practice
  • 2020, 6(1), pp.49-67
  • DOI : 10.15842/CPKJOURNAL.PUB.6.1.49
  • Publisher : Korean Clinical Psychology Association
  • Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science > Clinical Psychology
  • Received : November 11, 2019
  • Accepted : January 13, 2020
  • Published : March 31, 2020

Eunjin Lee 1 Sung-Doo Won 2 KIM, EUN JUNG 2

1청주스마일센터
2아주대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study investigated the mediating roles of self-blame and perfectionistic self-presentation on the relationship between socially prescribed perfectionism and social anxiety to form an integrated understanding of the related cognitive mechanisms. A total of 347 undergraduate students completed questionnaires assessing the tendencies of socially prescribed perfectionism, social anxiety, perfectionistic self-presentation, and self-blame. Using structural equation modeling, the results indicated that self-blame and perfectionistic self-presentation sequentially mediated the effect of socially prescribed perfectionism on social anxiety. Additionally, self-blame partially mediated the relationship between socially prescribed perfectionism and perfectionistic self-presentation, and perfectionistic self-presentation partially mediated the relationship between self-blame and social anxiety. Furthermore self-blame demonstrated larger mediating effects than other mediating paths. These findings suggested that interventions to prevent individuals with socially prescribed perfectionism from developing social anxiety symptoms (e,g., compassion-focused therapy) should focus on reducing self-blame and perfectionistic self-presentation. The study’s limitations and future directions for research were discussed.

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