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- Double Mediation Effect of Social Interaction Anxiety and Experiential Avoidance between Internalized Shame and Social Media Addiction Tendency
- Kiyeon Nam, Myoung-Ho Hyun, Young-Sil Kwon
- STRESS. 2025;33(1):45-52. Published online March 28, 2025
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17547/kjsr.2025.33.1.45
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This study examined the pathway by which internalized shame influences the tendency toward social media addiction through the mediating roles of social interaction anxiety and experiential avoidance.
Methods
Data were collected from 174 Korean adults who completed surveys measuring internalized shame, social interaction anxiety, experiential avoidance, and social media addiction. Linear regression and Process Macro were used for data analysis.
Results
Internalized shame affected social media addiction by mediating experiential avoidance, and the mediation effect of social interaction anxiety was not significant. However, the double mediating effect of social interaction anxiety and experiential avoidance on the relationship between internalized shame and social media addiction was significant.
Conclusions
People who chronically experience negative perceptions and shame about themselves seek stability through others; however, they experience anxiety in face-to-face interactions and use social media to control and avoid these anxieties. To effectively reduce the tendency toward social media addiction, intervention is required to avoid social interaction anxiety, rather than attempting to change maladaptive identity.
- The Relationship between Borderline Personality Traits and Reactive Aggression: The Mediating Effect of Experiential Avoidance
- Jiyeon Lee, Myoung-Ho Hyun
- STRESS. 2020;28(4):262-268. Published online December 31, 2020
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17547/kjsr.2020.28.4.262
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Background The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of experiential avoidance in the relationship between borderline personality traits and reactive aggression.
Methods In total, 160 participants (male N=57, female N=103, mean age 25.3 years) completed the questionnaires measuring levels of borderline personality traits, experiential avoidance, and reactive aggression.
Results First, borderline personality traits had a significantly positive effect on experiential avoidance and reactive aggression. Experiential avoidance also had a positive effect on reactive aggression. Second, experiential avoidance had mediating effect between borderline personality traits and reactive aggression.
Conclusions Based on the results of this study, it was confirmed that borderline personality traits could activate experiential avoidance, which leads to an increase in reactive aggression. Furthermore, current results suggested that in the treatment of reactive aggression in borderline personality traits, it was important to deal with experiential avoidance.
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