scholarly journals Relationship Between Parental Marital Conflict and Social Anxiety Symptoms of Chinese College Students: Mediation Effect of Attachment

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aklilu A. Adare ◽  
Yuewen Zhang ◽  
Yaqi Hu ◽  
Zhenhong Wang
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Marital Conflict ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms ◽  
Peer Attachment ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Multiple Mediation

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.

The Role of Shame and Self-Criticism in Social Anxiety: A Daily-Diary Study in a Nonclinical Sample

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gal Lazarus ◽  
Ben Shahar
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Daily Diary ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms ◽  
Diary Study ◽  
Daily Diary Study ◽  
Nonclinical Sample ◽  
High Level

We sought to explore the daily association between shame and self-criticism, and the extent to which this association varies as a function of social anxiety symptoms. Fifty-nine undergraduate students completed a measure of social anxiety symptoms at a baseline meeting and then completed measures of shame experienced during significant social interactions and self-criticism following those interactions twice daily for 10 days. Social anxiety symptoms predicted more shame during daily social interactions and more self-criticism following them. Additionally, shame predicted subsequent self-criticism. This relationship was moderated by levels of social anxiety symptoms, such that those with higher levels of social anxiety symptoms exhibited high levels of self-criticism following daily social interactions characterized by both high and low shame, whereas those with lower levels of social anxiety symptoms showed high levels of self-criticism only after interactions with high levels of shame. These findings are consistent with the notion that self-criticism may serve as a regulatory coping method when experiencing shame, and that social anxiety difficulties are related to an inflexibly high level of self-criticism.

scholarly journals Longitudinal associations between social anxiety symptoms and cannabis use throughout adolescence: the role of peer involvement

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 483-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefanie A. Nelemans ◽  
William W. Hale ◽  
Quinten A. W. Raaijmakers ◽  
Susan J. T. Branje ◽  
Pol A. C. van Lier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms ◽  
Cannabis Use ◽  
Peer Involvement ◽  
Longitudinal Associations

Family Incivility and Cyberbullying Perpetration Among College Students: Negative Affect as a Mediator and Dispositional Mindfulness as a Moderator

2021 ◽  
pp. 088626052110630
Author(s):  
Shuai Jin ◽  
Miao Miao
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Negative Affect ◽  
Longitudinal Design ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Mechanism Study ◽  
Dispositional Mindfulness ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Acting With Awareness ◽  
The Relationship

Although family factors are associated with cyberbullying, few studies have investigated the relationship between family incivility and cyberbullying perpetration. The current study aimed to examine the associations between family incivility and cyberbullying perpetration among college students, and further investigate the underlying moderated mediation mechanism. Study 1 was a cross-sectional survey among 640 Chinese undergraduate students ( Mage = 20.29 years, SD = 1.38). Demographics, family incivility, cyberbullying perpetration, and negative affect were assessed. The results supported the idea that negative affect plays a role in mediating the relationship between family incivility and cyberbullying perpetration. Study 2 used a two-wave longitudinal design, aiming to examine both the mediating role of negative affect and the moderating role of dispositional mindfulness (represented through five facets—observing, describing, acting with awareness, nonjudging, and nonreacting—each of which were analyzed separately). The data were collected from 200 Chinese undergraduate and graduate students ( Mage = 22.18, SD = 2.56). Negative affect was also found to play a mediation effect in this study. Furthermore, the results found that acting with awareness and nonjudging weakened the relationship between family incivility and negative affect, whereas observing exacerbated it. Moreover, nonjudging exacerbated the relationship between negative affect and cyberbullying perpetration. The present findings indicate that negative affect may play a role in explaining the association between family incivility and cyberbullying perpetration. Furthermore, acting with awareness and nonjudging could buffer the relationship between family incivility and cyberbullying perpetration via negative affect, which provides a new insight for the prevention of and intervention on cyberbullying perpetration.

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