The purpose of this study was to examine the relation between parenting attitude, interpersonal anxiety, and self-regulation ability perceived by university students, and to examine the mediating effect of self-regulation ability on the relations betw...
The purpose of this study was to examine the relation between parenting attitude, interpersonal anxiety, and self-regulation ability perceived by university students, and to examine the mediating effect of self-regulation ability on the relations between parenting attitude and interpersonal anxiety. The research questions for the purpose of this study are as follows.
First, what are the perceived parenting attitude, interpersonal anxiety, and self-regulation ability perceived by university students?
Second, what is the relation between parenting attitude, self-regulation ability and interpersonal anxiety perceived by university students?
Third, is there a mediating effect of self-regulation ability in the relation between parenting attitude and interpersonal anxiety perceived by university students?
For this study, a survey was conducted on 330 university students at four-year universities in Jeonbuk about parenting attitude scale(EMBU), interpersonal anxiety scale(IAS), and self-regulation scale(VCI-Short). Finally, 304 data were collected. Collected data were analyzed by frequency analysis, correlation analysis, regression analysis, and hierarchical regression analysis using the SPSS 21.0 program. After confirming the mediating effect, Sobel Test was conducted to test the statistical significance of the mediating effect.
The findings and conclusions from this study are as follows.
First, as a result of examining the tendency of each variable, the emotional parenting attitude was higher than the middle, the rejection parenting attitude was slightly lower than the middle, and the overprotective parenting attitude was slightly higher than the middle. Interpersonal anxiety was a little more anxious than the middle.,Self-regulation ability was used to the middle level in both self-regulation and volitional restraint style, which are subfactors, and it was found that volitional restraint style was used a little more than Self-regulation style.
Second, there was a significant correlation between parenting attitude, interpersonal anxiety and self-regulation ability perceived by university students. This means that the perceived parenting is positive, the lower the interpersonal anxiety and the adaptive self-regulation is achieved. On the contrary, the more negative the parenting attitude is, the more likely it is to experience interpersonal anxiety. When using self-regulation ability, it means that negative regulation is mainly used rather than positive regulation.
Third, the mediating effect was different depending on the type of parenting attitude and style of self-regulation in the relation between parental attitude and interpersonal anxiety perceived by college students. Emotional parenting attitude was partially mediated by interpersonal anxiety, and self-regulation style and volitional restraint style were partially mediated in the relation between rejection parenting attitude and interpersonal anxiety.
Based on the research, it was confirmed that the parenting attitude perceived by university students affected interpersonal anxiety through self-regulation ability. Therefore, the contents and results of this study suggest that students who experience interpersonal anxiety in the counseling field of university students can have positive counseling intervention by insight into the current problems in interpersonal relations that are influenced by family and parents and helping them to use their self-regulation ability adaptively.