The purposes of this study are to examine the relations among social self-efficacy, ambivalence over emotional expressiveness, emotional regulation style and interpersonal problems, and to verify if the ambivalence over emotional expressiveness and em...
The purposes of this study are to examine the relations among social self-efficacy, ambivalence over emotional expressiveness, emotional regulation style and interpersonal problems, and to verify if the ambivalence over emotional expressiveness and emotional regulation style are mediating variables between social self-efficacy and interpersonal problems. The subjects of this study were 464 undergraduates.
The results of this study were as follows.
First, it appeared to have less interpersonal problems as higher social self-efficacy. Second, it appeared to experience less ambivalence over emotional expressiveness as higher social self-efficacy. Third, as higher social self-efficacy, it appeared to use active style and support-seeking style and not to use avoidant/distractive style. Fourth, it appeared to experience many interpersonal problems as higher ambivalence over emotional expressiveness. Fifth, it appeared to experience less interpersonal problems as more usage of active style, the lower level factor, and it appeared to experience more interpersonal problems as more usage of avoidant/distractive style, and it appeared support-seeking style to have no meaningful relations to interpersonal problems. Lastly, in terms of the effect of social self-efficacy on interpersonal problems, ambivalence over emotional expressiveness appeared complete mediating with emotional regulation style.
This study has its significance of founding social self-efficacy is a factor that affects interpersonal problems and verifying ambivalence over emotional expressiveness appeared complete mediating with emotional regulation style in terms of the effect of social self-efficacy on interpersonal problems.