Key Laboratory of Adolescent Cyberpsychology and Behavior (CCNU), Ministry of Education; School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, No. 152 Luoyu Street, Hongshan District, Wuhan, Hubei, 430079, China.
School of Psychology, Inner Mongolia Normal University, No. 81 Zhaowuda Road, Saihan District, Hohhot, 010022, Inner Mongolia, China.
BMC Psychol. 2023 Nov 13;11(1):391. doi: 10.1186/s40359-023-01412-y.
As social networking sites (SNSs) with diverse functions gradually become an important social place for modern people, openness, as a personality trait that represents the willingness to consider diverse things, will be more likely to affect people's cognitive and emotional experience (e.g., social anxiety) in social interactions. This study examined the relationship between openness and social anxiety and the underlying psychological mechanism in the internet age based on the cognitive-behavioral model of social anxiety.
This cross‑sectional survey study conducted a questionnaire survey of 522 college students from two provinces in China (191 male; age range 18-25; M = 20.76, SD = 1.34).
The results showed that openness is negatively related to social anxiety. Self-evaluation and passive SNS use independently mediate the relationship between openness and social anxiety, respectively. Moreover, openness is associated with social anxiety both through the chain mediating roles of active SNS use and self-evaluation and through the chain mediating roles of passive SNS use and self-evaluation.
Openness is negatively associated with social anxiety, and the different ways of SNS use and self-evaluation are the underlying mechanisms. These results provide insights into the clinical treatment of social anxiety and how to benefit from online interactions.
随着具有多种功能的社交网站（SNS）逐渐成为现代人的重要社交场所，开放性作为一种代表愿意考虑多种事物的人格特质，更有可能影响人们在社交互动中的认知和情感体验（例如社交焦虑）。本研究基于社交焦虑的认知行为模型，探讨了互联网时代开放性与社交焦虑之间的关系及其潜在心理机制。
本横断面调查研究对来自中国两个省份的 522 名大学生（男性 191 名；年龄 18-25 岁；M=20.76，SD=1.34）进行了问卷调查。
结果表明，开放性与社交焦虑呈负相关。自我评价和被动 SNS 使用分别独立中介开放性与社交焦虑之间的关系。此外，开放性通过积极使用 SNS 和自我评价的链式中介作用以及通过被动使用 SNS 和自我评价的链式中介作用与社交焦虑相关。
开放性与社交焦虑呈负相关，SNS 使用和自我评价的不同方式是其潜在机制。这些结果为社交焦虑的临床治疗以及如何从在线互动中受益提供了新的思路。
