The role of personality traits in mediating the relation between fear of negative evaluation and social interaction anxiety
IntroductionSocial interaction anxiety and fear of negative evaluation have many maladaptive outcomes and, in order to counteract their effects, it is essential to identify those psychological or social factors that make people vulnerable to them. One of these factors is the individual’s personality...
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| author | Crenguța Mihaela Macovei Ștefania Bumbuc Fabiana Martinescu-Bădălan |
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| description | IntroductionSocial interaction anxiety and fear of negative evaluation have many maladaptive outcomes and, in order to counteract their effects, it is essential to identify those psychological or social factors that make people vulnerable to them. One of these factors is the individual’s personality structure: some personality traits increase the individuals’ vulnerability to symptoms of social anxiety, while others protect them.MethodsThe aim of this paper is to analyse the role of HEXACO personality traits in mediating the relationship between fear of negative evaluation and social anxiety, in a sample of 352 cadets from the Land Forces Academy of Sibiu. The relationships between these concepts were analysed using structural equation modeling (SEM) in several hypothetical models, two of which were ultimately validated.ResultsIn the first model, the fear of negative evaluation has an indirect effect on social interaction anxiety through the mediation of extraversion, conscientiousness, and altruism, separately. Furthermore, extraversion, conscientiousness, and altruism play a serial mediating role in the association between the fear of negative evaluation and social interaction anxiety. In the second model, the fear of negative evaluation has an indirect effect on social interaction anxiety through the mediation of social boldness, liveliness, and organization, separately, but not through altruism. Social boldness, liveliness, and organization played a serial mediating role in the relationship between the two constructs, while altruism moderated the relationship between liveliness, organization, and social interaction anxiety.DiscussionAnalysing the relationship between the individuals’ personality traits, social anxiety, and fear of negative evaluation facilitated the identification of ways to cultivate desirable behaviours in social environments typified by compliance, discipline, uniformity, and rigor. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3aaee499cae44456a827fccf31e059082023-10-19T07:59:14ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782023-10-011410.3389/fpsyg.2023.12680521268052The role of personality traits in mediating the relation between fear of negative evaluation and social interaction anxietyCrenguța Mihaela MacoveiȘtefania BumbucFabiana Martinescu-BădălanIntroductionSocial interaction anxiety and fear of negative evaluation have many maladaptive outcomes and, in order to counteract their effects, it is essential to identify those psychological or social factors that make people vulnerable to them. One of these factors is the individual’s personality structure: some personality traits increase the individuals’ vulnerability to symptoms of social anxiety, while others protect them.MethodsThe aim of this paper is to analyse the role of HEXACO personality traits in mediating the relationship between fear of negative evaluation and social anxiety, in a sample of 352 cadets from the Land Forces Academy of Sibiu. The relationships between these concepts were analysed using structural equation modeling (SEM) in several hypothetical models, two of which were ultimately validated.ResultsIn the first model, the fear of negative evaluation has an indirect effect on social interaction anxiety through the mediation of extraversion, conscientiousness, and altruism, separately. Furthermore, extraversion, conscientiousness, and altruism play a serial mediating role in the association between the fear of negative evaluation and social interaction anxiety. In the second model, the fear of negative evaluation has an indirect effect on social interaction anxiety through the mediation of social boldness, liveliness, and organization, separately, but not through altruism. Social boldness, liveliness, and organization played a serial mediating role in the relationship between the two constructs, while altruism moderated the relationship between liveliness, organization, and social interaction anxiety.DiscussionAnalysing the relationship between the individuals’ personality traits, social anxiety, and fear of negative evaluation facilitated the identification of ways to cultivate desirable behaviours in social environments typified by compliance, discipline, uniformity, and rigor.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1268052/fullfear of negative evaluationsocial interaction anxietypersonality traitspersonality facetsserial mediation |
| spellingShingle | Crenguța Mihaela Macovei Ștefania Bumbuc Fabiana Martinescu-Bădălan The role of personality traits in mediating the relation between fear of negative evaluation and social interaction anxiety Frontiers in Psychology fear of negative evaluation social interaction anxiety personality traits personality facets serial mediation |
| title | The role of personality traits in mediating the relation between fear of negative evaluation and social interaction anxiety |
| title_full | The role of personality traits in mediating the relation between fear of negative evaluation and social interaction anxiety |
| title_fullStr | The role of personality traits in mediating the relation between fear of negative evaluation and social interaction anxiety |
| title_full_unstemmed | The role of personality traits in mediating the relation between fear of negative evaluation and social interaction anxiety |
| title_short | The role of personality traits in mediating the relation between fear of negative evaluation and social interaction anxiety |
| title_sort | role of personality traits in mediating the relation between fear of negative evaluation and social interaction anxiety |
| topic | fear of negative evaluation social interaction anxiety personality traits personality facets serial mediation |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1268052/full |
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