The Moderating Effect of Self-Compassion in the Relationship between Self-Focused Attention and Social Anxiety

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to test moderating role of self compassion in the relationship between self-focused attention and social anxiety. Scale for Dispositional Self-focused Attention in Social situation, Self-Compassion Scale, and Social Avoidance and Distress Scale were administered to a sample of 425 undergraduate students. The result was as follows: First, Correlation analysis was conducted to examine the relation among self-focused attention, self-compassion, social anxiety. Self-focused attention was positive significantly correlated social anxiety. In contrast, self-compassion was negative significantly correlated social anxiety. Second, self-compassion interacted with self-focused attention such that it played a more prominent role in protecting against social anxiety symptoms during lower self-focused attention than during higher self-focused attention. This result suggested the importance of self-focused attention and self-compassion in psychological approach to university students who have difficulty in social anxiety. (Korean J Stress Res 2016;24:65∼74)

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“…또한 사후반추사고는 대인불안 및 발표불안과 유의한 정적상관을 나타냈으며, 이러한 결과는 기존 선행연 구들 (McEvoy et al, 2009;Jeon U et al, 2013;Kim KH et al, 2013;Kim KJ, 2018)과 일치한다. 반면에 자기자비 와 사회불안은 유의한 부적상관을 나타났는데 이러한 결과 는 선행 연구결과 (Werner et al, 2012;Potter, 2014;Kim SY, 2015;Shim ES et al, 2016;Baek SY et al, 2018)…”