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KMID : 0981220090090010075
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Congnitive Behavior Therapy in Korea
2009 Volume.9 No. 1 p.75 ~ p.89
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The Influences of Negative Social Self-Concept and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation on Social Anxiety among University Students
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Oh Eun-Hye
Noh Sang-Sun
Cho Yong-Rae
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Abstract
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Contemporary cognitive models emphasize the importance of negative social self-concept in social anxiety or social anxiety disorder, and recent research has demonstrated that difficulties in emotion regulation may also play a role in social anxiety or social anxiety disorder. This study examined the unique effects of negative social self-concept and difficulties in emotion regulation on social anxiety among a sample of 200 university students. As expected, negative social self-concept significantly predicted both social interaction anxiety and social phobic symptoms after controlling for the levels of depression and difficulties in emotion regulation. Difficulties in emotion regulation also significantly predicted both social interaction anxiety and social phobic symptoms above and beyond the levels of depression and negative social self-concept. Further, the relative contributions of the dimensions of difficulties in emotion regulation were examined. Nonacceptance of emotions, lack of attention to and awareness of emotions, and lack of emotional clarity each significantly contributed to both social interaction anxiety and social phobic symptoms, whereas the other dimensions of difficulties in emotion regulation did not independently predict any kinds of social anxiety. These results provide support for the unique role of negative social self-concept and difficulties in emotion regulation in social anxiety, as well as the differential influence of the dimensions of difficulties in emotion regulation on social anxiety.
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KEYWORD
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negative social self-concept, difficulties in emotion regulation, social anxiety, social anxiety disorder, cognition
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