대학생의 행동억제가 사회불안에 미치는 영향

Abstract

Objectives This study set a structural model that behavioral inhibition and social anxiety were sequentially mediated by fear of positive evaluation and negative interpretation of positive events and examined the goodness of fit and the mediating effect of the model.
 Methods A total of 295 undergraduate students in Gyeonggi-do participated in this study and completed a measure of Retrospective Self-Report of Inhibition, Fear of Positive Evaluation Scale, Interpretation of Positive Events Scale, Social Interaction Anxiety Scale, Social Phobia Scale.
 Results First, correlation analysis showed that behavioral inhibition, fear of positive evaluation, negative interpretation of positive events and social anxiety were significantly and positively correlated with each other. Second, fear of positive evaluation and negative interpretation of positive events sequentially mediated the relationship between behavioral inhibition and social anxiety. Third, there was a gender difference in the path of fear of positive evaluation and social anxiety. It was confirmed that when the fear of positive evaluation affected social anxiety, the influence could be greater in men than in women.
 Conclusions This study is meaningful in that it explained the occurrence and maintenance of social anxiety from an integrated perspective, including behavioral inhibition, which is a temperamental vulnerability that could affect cognitive vulnerabilities such as fear of positive evaluation and negative interpretation of positive events. In addition, there were gender differences in some paths in the research model, so based on this future research was discussed.