With the rapid development of social media, the incidence of online social anxiety has obviously increased, which has a serious impact on the quality of personal communication and mental health. The existing studies mainly focus on the characteristics of online social anxiety, the psychological factors related to it, and the difference and connection between online social anxiety and realistic social anxiety, but pay less attention to the influence of people's own characteristics as the subject of social interaction on online social anxiety. This makes the current research results more limited to the anxiety symptom itself, and the understanding of the relationship between different personality characteristics and online social anxiety is still shallow, and the reference for how to prevent and intervene online social anxiety is insufficient.
This study explores how the important personality trait of extroversion affects college students' online social anxiety and the possible intervention paths. By using the Extroversion Scale, Interaction Anxiousness Scale (IAS), Social Anxiety Scale for Social Media Users (SAS-SMU), Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale (MARS) and Online Self-Disclosure Scale, undergraduate students were recruited to participate in the survey nationwide through the Internet, and 919 questionnaires were distributed and 790 valid questionnaires were collected. This paper includes two research questions.
Question 1 focused on the relationship between online and realistic social anxiety of college students with different extroversion trait, and the mediating role of mindfulness and online self-disclosure separately. The extroversion group and introversion group were screened by extreme grouping method in all subjects. Firstly, correlation and regression analysis was used to explore the relationship of the variables. The results showed that the correlation between online social anxiety and realistic social anxiety of extroverted college students is significantly higher than that of introverted college students. Both online social anxiety and realistic social anxiety of introverted college students were significantly higher than that of extroverted college students. Through regression analysis, it is found that mindfulness plays a mediating role between extroverted college students' extroversion and online social anxiety. The depth of online self-disclosure mediates between introverted college students' extroversion and online social anxiety.
In Question 2, based on the theory of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), the mediating effect of mindfulness and online self-disclosure between college students' extroversion and online social anxiety was analyzed by using structural equation model, and the chain mediating model was established and its suppressing effect was analyzed. The results showed that mindfulness and online self-disclosure play a chained mediating role between all subjects' extroversion and online social anxiety, which provides a specific method reference for preventing and intervening online social anxiety. The study also found that when the mindfulness level exceeds a certain level, it may lead to the change of online self-disclosure behavior, making online social anxiety more seriously. This suggests that psychologists should strive for a balance between mindfulness level and online self-disclosure behavior in the process of intervening online social anxiety of college students, and adopt different intervention emphases for college students with different extroversion level.
Conclusion: The correlation between online social anxiety and realistic social anxiety of extroverted college students is significantly higher than that of introverted college students. Compared with extroverted college students, introverted college students have significantly higher online social anxiety and realistic social anxiety. Mindfulness mediates the relationship between extroverted college students' extroversion and online social anxiety. Depth of online self-disclosure mediates introverted college students' extroversion and online social anxiety. Mindfulness and online self-disclosure have a chained mediator effect and suppressing effect between all subjects' extroversion and online social anxiety.
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