This purpose of the present study was to examine the mediating effeet of self-consciousness and self-silencing between adolescence`s actual-ideal self discrepancies and depression. 508 high school students in the Metropolitan area were surveyed and da...
This purpose of the present study was to examine the mediating effeet of self-consciousness and self-silencing between adolescence`s actual-ideal self discrepancies and depression. 508 high school students in the Metropolitan area were surveyed and data from them analyzed. First, the result indicated that actual-ideal self discrepancies showed a significant, low positive correlation in relation with self-consciousness and self-silencing. and self-consciousness, self-silencing showed a significant low positive correlation in relation with depression. The result of Baron & Kenny test showed partial mediating self-consciousness and self-silencing between adolescence`s actual-ideal self and depression. The results of this study had significance in the exploring the psychological mechanism of adolescence`s depression which is caused by adolescence`s actual-ideal self and suggesed that self-consistence treatment might be useful therapeutic intervention for the depression caused by actual-ideal self discrepancies.