Psychological Development and Education ›› 2022, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (5): 720-728.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2022.05.13

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Passive Social Network Site Use and Social Anxiety: The Influence of Rumination and Self-construals

LI Song1, CHEN Xu1, RAN Guangming2, ZHANG Qi3   

  1. 1. Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715;
    2. Department of Psychology, Institute of Education, China West Normal University, Nanchong 637002;
    3. College of Preschool and Primary Education, China West Normal University, Nanchong 637002
  • Published:2022-09-14

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Abstract: Although passive social network site use has been verified to play a key risk factor of increased social anxiety, little research has explored the mediating and moderating mechanisms underlying this relation. This study aimed to test the mediating role of rumination and the moderating role of self-construals in this connection. A total of 614 college students filled out self-report questionnaires including passive social network site use, rumination, social anxiety and self-construals. The results indicated that passive social network site use was positively related to social anxiety and rumination fully mediated this link. Importantly, the effect of passive social network site use on rumination was moderated by self-construals. Conditional indirect effects analysis further showed that the significant mediating effect of rumination only existed among interdependence self-construals individuals rather than independence self-construals individuals. This study contributed to deepen the understanding of how passive social network site use influenced high social anxiety.

Key words: passive social network site use, rumination, social anxiety, self-construals, college students

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