The Relationship Between Rejection Sensitivity and Dormitory Interpersonal Relations in Female College Students: The Mediating Effect of Coping Style

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10.2991/assehr.k.210120.035How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Female College Students, Rejection Sensitivity, Coping Style, Dormitory Interpersonal Relationship, Mediating Effect

Abstract

Dormitory interpersonal relationship plays an important role in female undergraduates’ learning efficiency, personality growth and life quality. The aim of this study is to explore the status of female undergraduates’ rejection sensitivity, coping style and dormitory interpersonal relationship, and analyze the relationships among these 3 variables. 780 female undergraduates were selected with stratified random sampling from 7 colleges in Guangdong Province. They were investigated with Refusal Sensitivity Scale (RSS), Simplified Coping Strategy Questionnaire (SCSQ) and Dormitory Interpersonal Relationships Questionnaire for Female College Students (DIRQFCS). The survey results indicate the following three points. First, the scores of RSS, SCSQ, positive coping (PC), negative coping (NC), DIRQFCS and its four aspects (interpersonal and group knowledge (IGK), interpersonal communication (IC), individual traits (IT) and interpersonal disturbance (ID) were (56.5±8.7), (13.6±6.6), (22.9±5.7), (9.4±3.9), (85.4±8.8), (12.5±2.2), (16.6±2.2), (25.0±3.2) and (31.4±3.2), respectively. Second, apart from PC vs. rejection sensitivity, PC vs. IC, the total score of SCSQ vs. the other 8 variables, there was a significantly pairwise correlation among the other variables. Third, the score of NC played a partial mediating effect in the relationship between the total scores of RSS and DIRQFCS, with the mediating effect accounting for 18.0% of the total effect. It is therefore suggested that rejection sensitivity not only directly influences the dormitory interpersonal relationship in the female undergraduates, but also indirectly influences it through negative coping.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yongmei Hou
AU  - Tingyan Li
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/01/20
TI  - The Relationship Between Rejection Sensitivity and Dormitory Interpersonal Relations in Female College Students: The Mediating Effect of Coping Style
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 3rd International Seminar on Education Research and Social Science (ISERSS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 181
EP  - 186
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210120.035
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210120.035
ID  - Hou2021
ER  -