Social anxiety and depressive symptoms mediate instrumentality and maladaptive interpersonal styles |
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| Institution: | 1. Beijing Key Lab of Applied Experimental Psychology, School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, 19 XinJieKouWai St., HaiDian District, Beijing 100875, China;2. School of Sociology, China University of Political Science and Law, 25 Xitucheng Lu, Haidian District, Beijing 100088, China;3. Graduate School of Education, Fordham University, 113 West 60th Street, Lowenstein Room 1008, New York, NY 10023, USA;4. Elementary Educational College, Capital Normal University, 105 West Third Ring Road North, Haidian District, Beijing 100048, China |
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| Abstract: | This study sought to examine the relationships between stereotypically masculine (instrumentality) and feminine (expressiveness) personality traits, social anxiety and depressive symptoms, and three interpersonal styles of relating: destructive overdependence (DO), dysfunctional detachment (DD), and healthy dependence (HD). Based on theories of social anxiety and recent research on social anxiety and close relationships, it is argued that individuals with higher levels of social anxiety would display greater detachment and overdependence in their interpersonal relationships. Students at an Australian university (n = 524) completed a battery of online self-report measures. The findings suggest that low levels of instrumentality are related to social anxiety and depressive symptoms, which both mediate the relationship between instrumentality and the two maladaptive interpersonal styles of relating: DO and DD. |
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| Keywords: | Social anxiety Depression Instrumentality Dependence Detachment Gender role Expressiveness Personal Attributes Questionnaire |
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