Abstract

Objectives This study analyzed the structural relationship among adult attachment, rejection sensitivity, ambivalence over emotional expressiveness, and social anxiety of university students. Methods For this purpose, a survey was conducted on 500 college students at D and S private universities in Busan Metropolitan City, and 468 data were used for the final analysis, Correlation analysis was conducted to investigate the relationship between adult attachment, rejection sensitivity, ambivalence over emotional expressiveness, and social anxiety of college students using the 27.0 program, and structural relationship analysis was conducted using the AMOS 27.0 program. Results The analysis results are as follows. First, university students' adult attachment, rejection sensitivity, and emotional expression ambivalence had a direct effect on social anxiety. Second, university students' adult attachment had an indirect effect on social anxiety by mediating rejection sensitivity. Third, university students' adult attachment had an indirect effect on social anxiety by mediating emotional expressive ambivalence. Fourth, in the relationship between university students' adult attachment and social anxiety, a partial mediating effect was shown in the sequential mediating effect of rejection sensitivity and emotional expression ambivalence. Conclusions In the relationship between university students' adult attachment and social anxiety, the mediating role of rejection sensitivity and emotional expression ambivalence as mediating variables was verified and suggested that it is an important variable in lowering social anxiety.

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