Abdollahi Abbas, Ahmed Alim Al Ayub, Suksatan Wanich, Kumar Tribhuwan, Majeed Mohammed Sabeeh, Zainal Anna Gustina, Dokoushkani Farimah, Allen Kelly A
Department of Counseling, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran.
School of Accounting, Jiujiang University, 551 Qianjindonglu, Jiujiang, Jiangxi China.
Psychol Stud (Mysore). 2022;67(1):53-62. doi: 10.1007/s12646-022-00641-2. Epub 2022 Mar 1.
Social anxiety is one of the most prevalent and chronic mental-health conditions in young adults. To date, no studies have been conducted about the relationships between the Big Five personality dimensions, courage, and social anxiety among Malaysian undergraduate students. Therefore, this study was designed to examine courage as a potential mediator of the association between the Big Five personality dimensions and social anxiety among Malaysian Undergraduates. In this study, 500 Malaysian undergraduate students (205 males and 295 females) completed a series of questionnaires. Structural equation modelling (AMOS-SEM) revealed that, of the Big Five, neuroticism and social anxiety were positively correlated. Extraversion, conscientiousness, openness to experience, and agreeableness, as well as courage, were negatively correlated with social anxiety. Courage mediated the relationship between the Big Five personality dimensions and social anxiety. The main contribution of the present research is to show how the Big Five personality dimensions may contribute to social anxiety. The findings of this study also could be implicated for counselling practice for undergraduate students in Malaysia as a collectivist setting and other collectivist settings around the world.
社交焦虑是年轻人中最普遍且长期存在的心理健康问题之一。迄今为止，尚未有关于马来西亚本科生大五人格维度、勇气与社交焦虑之间关系的研究。因此，本研究旨在考察勇气是否为马来西亚本科生大五人格维度与社交焦虑之间关联的潜在中介变量。在本研究中，500名马来西亚本科生（205名男性和295名女性）完成了一系列问卷调查。结构方程模型（AMOS-SEM）显示，在大五人格中，神经质与社交焦虑呈正相关。外向性、尽责性、开放性和宜人性，以及勇气，与社交焦虑呈负相关。勇气在大五人格维度与社交焦虑之间起中介作用。本研究的主要贡献在于揭示大五人格维度如何导致社交焦虑。本研究结果也可能对马来西亚作为集体主义环境以及世界其他集体主义环境中的本科生咨询实践具有启示意义。
