A Research On The Relationships Between Parent-Child Attachment And Social Anxiety In Senior Middle School Students:Mediating Role Of Interpersonal Sensitivity

Interpersonal sensitivity is a new research direction about social cognition ability.It is a personality that is “over-aware and sensitive to the behavior and emotions of others.” Individuals with high interpersonal sensitivity are more likely to become depression,anxiety,etc.Since the senior middle school stage is the key period for the formation of individual personality characteristics,the research on personality traits of senior middle school students has become an important field that scholars have been scrambling to explore in recent years.This paper will begin with the important family factors that influence the formation of individual personality—parent-child attachment,and introduce interpersonal sensitivity and social anxiety,to explore the relationship between senior middle school students' parent-child attachment,interpersonal sensitivity and social anxiety.In this study,the Parental Peer Attachment Scale,the Interpersonal Sensitivity Questionnaire for Middle School Students,and the Social Anxiety Scale for Young People were selected.A total of 850 senior middle school students were selected for questionnaire survey.Through questionnaire recovery and effectiveness screening,a total of 770 valid questionnaires were obtained.After analyzing the current situation of senior middle students' parent-child attachment,interpersonal sensitivity and social anxiety,and the relationship among the three,the following conclusions were drawn:(1)High school students' father-child attachment and mother-child attachment had no significant difference in gender and grade;in the birth place of student,rural students' parent-child attachment was significantly lower than that of urban students;in whether they are only children,the only child's father-child attachment level was significantly lower than that of non-only children.(2)High school students' interpersonal sensitivity had no significant difference in gender;in the place of birth,the interpersonal sensitivity of rural students is significantly higher than that of urban students;in whether it is an only children,the interpersonal sensitivity of the only child is significantly higher than that of the non-only child;in the grade,the interpersonal sensitivity of grade 1 students is significantly higher than that of grade 2 students.(3)High school students' social anxiety had no significant difference in gender,the birth place and grade;in whether they are only children,the social anxiety of only children is significantly higher than that of non-only children.(4)There was a significant negative correlation between parent-child attachment and interpersonal sensitivity in high school students;there was a significant negative correlation between parent-child attachment and social anxiety;there was a significant positive correlation between interpersonal sensitivity and social anxiety.(5)High school students' parent-child attachment had a significant negative predictive effect to interpersonal sensitivity;parent-child attachment had a significant negative predictive effect to social anxiety;interpersonal sensitivity had a significant positive predictive effect to social anxiety.(6)Interpersonal sensitivity had a full mediating effect on the influence of father-son attachment to social anxiety;interpersonal sensitivity had a partial mediating effects on the influence of mother-child attachment to social anxiety.