Abstract
Social anxiety has been a common problem among college students and has an adverse impact on their adaptation outcomes. Among influential factors, parental marital conflict and attachment (parental and peer attachment) have been found to be related to social anxiety symptoms of college students; however, little is known how parental marital conflict and attachment jointly contribute to social anxiety symptoms of college students. The current study explored this issue. Self-reported questionnaires of perception of children of interparental conflict scale, inventory of parent and peer attachment, and the social interaction anxiety scale were administered to 707 undergraduate students (Mean age = 19.27, SD = 0.97). Results indicated that perceived parental marital conflict was positively correlated with social anxiety symptoms and was negatively associated with parental and peer attachment. Parental and peer attachments were negatively correlated with social anxiety symptoms. Mediation analyses indicated that perceived parental marital conflict exerted its indirect effect on social anxiety symptoms through a serial multiple mediation role of parental and peer attachment. The present findings highlight the serial multiple mediation role of parental and peer attachment in the relationship between perceived parental marital conflict and social anxiety symptoms of college students.
Highlights
The psychological well-being of college students has been a wide concern for society
Parental and peer attachments were negatively correlated with social anxiety symptoms
The current study aimed to investigate the mechanisms underlying the relation between perceived parental marital conflict and social anxiety symptoms of college students
Summary
The psychological well-being of college students has been a wide concern for society. Among the multiple physical and mental problems, social anxiety has become one of the major psychological problems of college students (Zhao and Dai, 2016; Shi et al, 2019). Previous studies focused on the relation between perceived parental marital conflict, parental and peer attachment, and social anxiety symptoms mostly on Western children and adolescents, while research investigating Chinese college students is still lacking. The current study aimed to explore whether parental and peer attachment played a serial multiple mediation role in the relationship between perceived parental marital conflict and social anxiety symptoms in Chinese college students
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