New employees' interpersonal sensitivity and help-seeking behavior: Fear of negative evaluation and social anxiety as mediators

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (10) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Chang Wang ◽  
Yuzhu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Interpersonal Sensitivity ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Negative Evaluation ◽  
Help Seeking Behavior ◽  
New Employees ◽  
Seeking Behavior ◽  
The Relationship

Little is known about the relationship between interpersonal sensitivity and help-seeking behavior (HSB), especially in the workplace context. We explored the mediating effects of both the fear of negative evaluation (FNE) and social anxiety (SA) in the association between new employees' interpersonal sensitivity (i.e., an excessive focus on the feelings and behaviors of others) and their HSB. Participants were 636 Chinese employees with 1 year or less of service in the job market. The results show that interpersonal sensitivity was negatively correlated with the HSB of new employees and that this relationship was mediated by FNE and then SA. Thus, for new employees, interpersonal sensitivity exerts a clearly negative predictive effect on HSB, and we have demonstrated the significant chain mediating effect of FNE and SA.

Social face consciousness and help-seeking behavior in new employees: Perceived social support and social anxiety as mediators

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (10) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Chang Wang ◽  
Yuzhu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Help Seeking Behavior ◽  
Mediating Effects ◽  
New Employees ◽  
Seeking Behavior ◽  
The Relationship

Cultural factors play an important role in new employees' help-seeking behavior (HSB). The relationship between social face consciousness (SFC), as an aspect of traditional Chinese cultures, and HSB has seldom been explored in empirical studies. To examine the potential mediating effects of perceived social support (PSS) and social anxiety (SA) in the relationship between SFC and HSB, we recruited 682 employees with 1 year or less of experience in the job market to complete the survey. As predicted, SFC had a significantly negative predictive effect on HSB, and the chain mediating effects of PSS and SA in the relationship between SFC and HSB were significant. The results of the study could be used as a reference for training new employees in learning how to seek help when needed.

scholarly journals Moderation effect of emotion regulation on the relationship between social anxiety, drinking motives and alcohol related problems among university students

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sojung Kim ◽  
Jung-Hye Kwon
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
University Students ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Negative Evaluation ◽  
Moderation Effect ◽  
Difficulties In Emotion Regulation ◽  
Physiological Symptoms ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Alcohol Related Problems

Abstract Background: Accumulated evidence suggests that individuals with social anxiety disorder (SAD) are at particular risk of developing alcohol use disorder (AUD). Yet, little is known about the mechanisms under this high comorbidity. This study aimed to elucidate the process of the development of alcohol related problems among individuals with elevated social anxiety. We investigated the moderation effect of difficulties in emotion regulation on the relationship between symptoms of social anxiety, coping and conformity motives and alcohol related problems. Methods: In a sample of university students (N = 647) in South Korea, we examined whether cognitive (fear of negative evaluation), behavioral (social avoidance), and physiological symptoms (concerns over physiological symptoms) of social anxiety affect alcohol related problems with the mediation of coping and conformity motives. Furthermore, difficulties in emotion regulation were hypothesized to moderate each mediational path. Results: Results showed that the fear of negative evaluation and concerns over physiological symptoms were associated with alcohol related problems with the mediation of conformity and coping motives, respectively. As hypothesized, each path was moderated by difficulties in emotion regulation. Conclusions: Findings suggest that coping and conformity motives to cope with cognitive and physiological symptoms of social anxiety were related to alcohol related problems. In addition, individuals with high levels of difficulties in emotion regulation were prone to exhibit more alcohol related problems.

scholarly journals The Ratio of Personal and Reactive Anxiety in the Psychological Status of Stuttering Patients

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
E. E. Shevtsova ◽  
L. A. Tarasova ◽  
T. B. Filicheva ◽  
T. V. Tumanova
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Speech Therapy ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Negative Evaluation ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Psychological Status ◽  
Reactive Anxiety ◽  
The Relationship

Introduction. The article is devoted to the problem of studying the psychological characteristics of patients with stuttering. A theoretical review of classical and modern approaches to the study of the personality of stammerers and their social and communication skills is presented. The results of an experimental study determining the relationship between social and communicative abilities and indicators of personal and reactive anxiety of stuttering patients are presented. The significance of the results obtained for building and implementing the work of an interdisciplinary team of specialists is determined.Materials and Methods. The following methods were used when writing the article: theoretical analysis of domestic and foreign literature sources; generalization and systematization of the results of studying the personal sphere of stuttering patients; experimental methods for studying the socio-communicative and psychological characteristics of patients with stuttering; methods of statistical processing of experimental data.Results. A variety of approaches to the study of personal characteristics of persons with stuttering is considered. In the course of studying the literature sources, the relationship between the state of the emotional and personal sphere and the communicative and speech capabilities of patients with stuttering was revealed, which was later confirmed when analyzing the results of the empirical part of the study. Data analysis showed that the level of social anxiety and fear of negative evaluation (the severity of social phobia) in patients with stuttering is several times higher than normal and correlates with the rigidity of fixation on a speech defect. The study revealed invariant and variable components in the structure of social and communicative maladaptation of patients with stuttering. Among the invariant components, we attributed the presence of high social anxiety (social distress, avoidance, and fear of negative evaluation) in combination with a maladaptive system of social attitudes characteristic of most stutterers. Variable components include individual characteristics of situational anxiety and socio-psychological characteristics of difficult communication, which are personalized.Discussion and Conclusions. The conducted study allowed to conclude that the difficulties and peculiarities of socio-communicative functioning of patients with stuttering need to determine the design of hierarchically structured pedagogical model of speech therapy effects that take into account the fixed and variable components in the structure of socio-communicative maladjustment and differentiate rehabilitative effect in the context of algorithmizing and personalized approach to speech therapy.

scholarly journals Moderation effect of emotion regulation on the relationship between social anxiety, drinking motives and alcohol related problems among university students

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sojung Kim ◽  
Jung-Hye Kwon
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
University Students ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Negative Evaluation ◽  
Moderation Effect ◽  
Difficulties In Emotion Regulation ◽  
Physiological Symptoms ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Alcohol Related Problems

Abstract Background: Accumulated evidence suggests that individuals with social anxiety disorder (SAD) are at particular risk of developing alcohol use disorder (AUD). Yet, little is known about the mechanisms under this high comorbidity. This study aimed to elucidate the process of the development of alcohol related problems among individuals with elevated social anxiety. We examined the moderation effect of difficulties in emotion regulation on the relationship between cognitive-behavioral-physiological symptoms of social anxiety, coping and conformity motives and alcohol related problems. Methods: In a sample of university students (N = 647) in South Korea, the proposed model in which cognitive (fear of negative evaluation)-behavioral (social avoidance)-physiological symptoms (concerns over physiological symptoms) were supposed to affect alcohol related problems with the mediation of coping and conformity motives was tested. Furthermore, difficulties in emotion regulation were hypothesized to moderate each mediational path. Results: Results showed that the fear of negative evaluation and concerns over physiological symptoms predicted alcohol related problems with the mediation of conformity and coping motives, respectively. As hypothesized, each path was moderated by difficulties in emotion regulation. Conclusions: Findings suggest that coping and conformity motives to cope with cognitive and physiological symptoms of social anxiety were related to alcohol related problems. In addition, individuals with high levels of difficulties in emotion regulation were prone to exhibit more alcohol related problems.

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