Psychological Development and Education ›› 2012, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (4): 413-420.

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Interpersonal Competence Mediating Paths from Social Perspective-taking and Public Self-consciousness to Adolescents’ Emotional Adaption

WANG Ming-zhong, ZHOU Zong-kui, FAN Cui-ying, SUN Xiao-jun   

  1. Key Laboratory of Adolescent Cyberpsychology and Behavior(CCNU), Ministry of Education; School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079
  • Online:2012-07-15 Published:2012-07-15

Abstract: 465 high school students were conveniently chosen as our subjects who were investigated with such instruments as the Interpersonal Competence Questionnaire,the Self-Consciousness Scale,UCLA Loneliness Scale and The Perspective-taking Subscale.With every class as a unit and under the supervision of two psychological graduates,these scales were administered to adolescents.Data were collected and analyzed by using SPSS 17.0 and LISREL 8.80.Results strongly supported the hypothetical model.Both social perspective-taking and public self-consciousness could directly positively predict the interpersonal competence and social anxiety of adolescents; The interpersonal competence could negatively predict their loneliness and social anxiety; The interpersonal competence could completely mediate the path from social perspective-taking to their loneliness as well as the path from public self-consciousness to their loneliness; The interpersonal competence could partially mediate the path from social perspective-taking to social anxiety as well as the path from public self-consciousness to their social anxiety.Further analysis revealed that adolescents show significantly different levels of interpersonal competence in different interpersonal contexts.And social perspective-taking,as well as public self-consciousness,contribute significantly differently to adolescents'interpersonal competence in different interpersonal contexts.We discussed the significance of this study for improving adolescents'interpersonal competence and relieving their loneliness and social anxiety by improving their social perspective taking and public self-consciousness.

Key words: adolescent, social perspective-taking, public self-consciousness, interpersonal competence, loneliness

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  • B844. 2
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