Effect of parenting style on social anxiety of college students:the mediating roles of core self-evaluation
Objective To explore the impact of parenting style on social anxiety among college students,and examine the mediating effect of core self-evaluation.Methods From November 2022 to Janu-ary 2023,a total of 1 126 college students in Harbin were taken as research subjects.Interaction anxiousness scale(IAS),short-egna minnen betraffende upfostran-Chinese(s-EMBU-C)and core self-evaluations scale(CSES)were used for analysis.Data were analyzed using SPSS 26.0 software for correlation analysis and a-nalysis of variance.AMOS 27.0 software was used for mediation effect test.Results Social anxiety(42.31±8.23)was negatively correlated with positive parenting style(5.44±1.45)(r=-0.072,P<0.05)and core self-evaluation(32.12±6.01)(r=-0.350,P<0.01),while positively correlated with negative parenting style(7.40±1.74)(r=0.302,P<0.01).Core self-evaluation was positively correlated with positive paren-tingstyle(r=0.362,P<0.01)and negatively correlated with negative parenting style(r=-0.346,P<0.01).Parent parenting styles had a significant mean direct effect on social anxiety of college students(βpositive=0.098,βnegtive=0.222).Mediation analyses indicated that core self-evaluation played a masking role between positive parenting styles and social anxiety,with an absolute value of 90.82%for the ratio of in-direct(-0.089)to direct effects(0.098).Core self-evaluation had partial mediating effect on negative par-enting styles,with direct effect and indirect effect accounting for 73.03%and 26.97%of the total effect,re-spectively.Conclusion Parenting style can either directly affect college students'social anxiety or indirect-ly through the mediating effect of core self-evaluations,with core self-evaluations playing a masking role in the positive parenting styles pathway.