Open AccessThe Influence of Parental Psychological Control on Social Anxiety among College Students: The Mediating Effect of Self-Discrepancy and Validation from Others
Author(s) -
Kyue Won Lee,
Eun-Young Park
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
seuteureseu yeon'gu/seuteureseu yeon-gu
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2234-1668
pISSN - 1225-665X
DOI - 10.17547/kjsr.2022.30.1.45
Subject(s) - psychology , social anxiety , structural equation modeling , anxiety , clinical psychology , psychological control , self control , developmental psychology , psychiatry , statistics , mathematics
Background: This study aimed to investigate the effects of parental psychological control on social anxiety among college students and to understand the mediating effect of self-discrepancy and validation from others between them.Methods: The participants were 351 college students from Daegu and Gyeongsangbuk-do who responded to a survey. And structural equation model was used to analyze the data.Results: First, there was no mediating effect of self-discrepancy between parental psychological control and social anxiety. Second, there was a significant mediating effect of validation from others between them. Finally, self-discrepancy and validation from others were found to sequentially mediate between parental psychological control and social anxiety.Conclusions: This findings suggest that self-discrepancy and validation from others could be used as a therapeutic strategy in treatments.