The Meditation Effects of Self-Concept on the Relationships between Rejection Sensitivity and Social Anxiety
AUTHOR : 김나영,조유진
INFORMATION : page. 149~162 / 2009 Vol.16 No.3
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating effects of self-concept on the relationships between rejection sensitivity and social anxiety within human relationships. In terms of the impact that university students' rejection sensitivity has on social relations, self-concept was suspected to act as an influencing factor and this was confirmed. A survey was conducted using 498 male and female undergraduate university students from Seoul, Gyeonggi, and Jeolla provinces. The revised Reject Sensitivity Questionnaire, Interpersonal Anxiety Scale and Self-Concept Scale were used as measurement tools and the data collected were analyzed by t-test, simple regression analysis and Baron and Kenny's test of mediation effects. The major findings of this study were as follows; rejection sensitivity and self-concept are predicted to have an influence on social anxiety. In other words, as rejection sensitivity increases and self-concept decreases, social anxiety is likely to increase. Additionally, while attempting to understand the effects that rejection sensitivity has on social anxiety, self-concept is considered as a parameter to cause a link between rejection sensitivity and social anxiety in female university students. Thus, female university student's social anxiety is directly influenced by rejection sensitivity at the same time as self-concept operates indirectly in terms of influence.
Key words : university student, reject sensitivity, social anxious, self-concept, the meditation effect