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The Mediating Effect of Ambivalence over Emotional Expressiveness in the Relationship between Behavioral Inhibition and Social Anxiety among Middle School Students

중학생의 행동억제기질과 사회불안의 관계에서 정서표현 양가성의 매개효과

  • Received : 2018.08.13
  • Accepted : 2018.11.02
  • Published : 2018.11.30
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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between behavioral inhibition, ambivalence over emotional expressiveness and social anxiety among Korean middle school students. In addition, we examined whether ambivalence over emotional expressiveness mediated the relationship between behavioral inhibition and social anxiety. For this aim, we conducted a survey of 357 first-third grade students from 6 middle schools located in the cities of Wonju, Seoul, Suwon, Suncheon, and Kwangju. Survey data was analyzed through descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis, and Sobel test using the SPSS/WIN 19.0 program. Results were as follows: First, there was a positive correlation between behavioral inhibition and social anxiety on ambivalence over emotional expressiveness. Second, ambivalence over emotional expressiveness was found to partially mediate the relationships between behavioral inhibition and interpersonal anxiety as well as performance anxiety. In other words, while behavioral inhibition tends to affect interpersonal anxiety and performance anxiety in a very direct way, it also influences them indirectly by increasing the ambivalence over emotional expressiveness. These results suggest that counseling of middle school students with social anxiety due to innate behavioral inhibition should seek to reduce their social anxiety by decreasing their ambivalence over emotional expressiveness.

본 연구는 중학생의 행동억제기질과 정서표현 양가성 그리고 사회불안의 관계를 살펴보고, 행동억제기질과 사회불안의 관계에서 정서표현 양가성이 매개하는지 알아보고자 하였다. 이를 위해 5개 도시(원주, 서울, 수원, 순천, 광주)에 소재하는 6개 중학교 1~3학년 학생 370명을 대상으로 설문을 실시하였다. 수집된 자료는 SPSS/WIN 19.0 프로그램을 사용하여 기술통계, 상관분석, 회귀분석, sobel test를 실시하였다. 본 연구의 주요결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 행동억제기질과 사회불안, 정서표현 양가성 모두는 서로 정적인 상관을 보였다. 둘째, 행동억제기질과 대인불안, 행동억제기질과 수행불안의 관계에서 정서표현 양가성이 부분 매개하는 것으로 나타났다. 이는 행동억제기질이 대인불안과 수행불안에 직접적인 영향을 미치기도 하지만 행동억제기질이 정서표현 양가성 수준을 증가시켜 대인불안과 수행불안이 높아진다는 것을 의미한다. 이러한 결과는 타고난 행동억제기질로 인해 사회불안을 호소하는 중학생을 상담할 때 정서표현 양가성 수준을 낮춰줌으로써 사회불안을 감소시킬 수 있도록 도와줄 수 있음을 시사한다.

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Fig. 1. Sobel Test Statistic Z=9.61, p<.001

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Fig. 2. Sobel Test Statistic Z=6.76, p<.001

Table 1. Correlation among major variables

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Table 2. Mediating effect of ambivalence over emotional expressiveness in the relationship between behavioral inhibition and interpersonal anxiety

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Table 3. Mediating effect of ambivalence over emotional expressiveness in the relationship between behavioral inhibition and performance anxiety

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