Personality Traits and Anxiety Disorders of Vietnamese Early Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Social Support and Self-Esteem

Q4 Psychology

Open Psychology Journal Pub Date : 2023-10-13 DOI:10.2174/0118743501251636230921105854

Nguyen Thi Thuy

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Aims: This study aims to investigate the relationship between personality traits and anxiety disorder, in which the mediating role of social support and self-esteem is also explored. Background: In Vietnam, anxiety disorder is a major challenge affecting adolescents’ social and academic functioning. Objectives: Examine whether adolescents’ personality traits are related to their anxiety disorders and whether social support and self-esteem mediate the relationship between personality and anxiety disorders. Methods: A sample population of 582 early adolescents at four secondary schools in Vietnam voluntarily participated in the study through the completion of the big-five personality dimension test, the social support scale, self-esteem scale and generalized anxiety disorder questionnaire. The SPSS statistical software was used to conduct descriptive statistics and analyses of Cronbach’s Alpha, Pearson correlations and Regression. The mediation analysis of self – esteem and social support was conducted to determine the relationship between personality traits and anxiety disorder through SPSS PROCESS Macro. Results: Results revealed that the neuroticism trait had a positive correlation with anxiety disorders (r = 0.56), while the agreeableness and conscientiousness traits showed negative correlations (r = - 0.08 and r = - 0.15, respectively). The regression indicated that approximately 33.4% of the variance anxiety could be explained by these traits (R 2 = 0.334; F = 55.414; p < 0.01). Bootstrapping and Sobel analyses showed that social support and self-esteem mediated the association between neuroticism trait and anxiety disorder (z = 3.00 and z = 5.45, respectively). Conclusion: The findings interpreted that Vietnamese educators can reduce symptoms of anxiety for early adolescents with high neuroticism trait by helping them get more social support from others and improve role of self-esteem.

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越南早期青少年人格特质与焦虑障碍:社会支持和自尊的中介作用

目的:本研究旨在探讨人格特质与焦虑障碍之间的关系，并探讨社会支持和自尊在其中的中介作用。背景:在越南，焦虑障碍是影响青少年社会和学业功能的主要挑战。目的:探讨青少年人格特质与焦虑障碍的关系，以及社会支持和自尊是否在人格与焦虑障碍的关系中起中介作用。方法:通过完成大五人格维度测试、社会支持量表、自尊量表和广泛性焦虑障碍问卷，抽取越南4所中学582名早期青少年自愿参与研究。采用SPSS统计软件进行描述性统计和Cronbach’s Alpha、Pearson相关、Regression分析。通过SPSS PROCESS Macro对自尊和社会支持进行中介分析，以确定人格特质与焦虑障碍的关系。结果:神经质与焦虑障碍呈显著正相关(r = 0.56)，随和与尽责性与焦虑障碍呈显著负相关(r = - 0.08, r = - 0.15)。回归分析表明，约33.4%的方差焦虑可以用这些性状来解释(r2 = 0.334;F = 55.414;p & lt;0.01)。Bootstrapping和Sobel分析显示，社会支持和自尊在神经质特质与焦虑障碍之间起中介作用(z = 3.00和z = 5.45)。结论:越南教育工作者可以通过帮助早期高神经质青少年从他人那里获得更多的社会支持和提高自尊的作用来减轻他们的焦虑症状。

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