Abstract

Objectives The purpose of this study was to examine whether adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies mediate the relationship between solder's perceived negative parenting attitudes and social anxiety.
 Methods For the purpose of this research, the self-reported questionnaire was gathered from 231 male soldiers serving in K province. The questionnaire included perceived parents' negative attitude scale, adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategy scale, and social anxiety scale. For data analysis, descriptive statistics and correlation analysis between major variables were performed through SPSS. The mediating effect analysis was performed using SPSS Process Macro, and mediating effect significance was confirmed through bootstrapping function of SPSS Process Macro.
 Results First, it appeared that soldiers perceived negative parents' parenting has a positive effect on the social anxiety, and adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategy has a negative effect on the social anxiety, and the perceived parents' negative parenting has a negative effect on the adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategy. Second, the mediating effect of adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategy was significant in the relationship between perceived parents' negative parenting and social anxiety.
 Conclusions It suggests that it is necessary to establish counseling and educational intervention strategies to promote the use of adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies in order to reduce the social anxiety level of soldiers.

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