This study examined whether college students' parenting experiences in the past had an effect between passive emotional expression and interpersonal ability in interpersonal relationships, and explored the effect on interpersonal skills according to t...
This study examined whether college students' parenting experiences in the past had an effect between passive emotional expression and interpersonal ability in interpersonal relationships, and explored the effect on interpersonal skills according to the parenting experience through passive emotional expression. This aims to improve the interpersonal skills of college students and to prepare basic data for research and development of specific intervention strategies and programs that can be used in counseling situations.
This study went through the following research process. The subjects of this study were 300 four-year college students located in Seoul, Incheon, Gyeonggi, and Chungcheong provinces, and their parentalization, passive emotional expression, and interpersonal ability levels were measured. The data collected in this study were calculated by Pearson correlation coefficient and hierarchical regression analysis to analyze the descriptive statistics of major variables and measure the correlation between each variable, and Baron and Kenny's (1986) mediating effect model was applied to verify the mediating effect of passive emotional expression in the relationship between parental experience and interpersonal ability. Finally, Sobel test was performed to evaluate the statistical significance of the mediating effect.
The research results according to the research analysis are as follows. First, parental experience was found to have a significant mediating effect on passive emotional expression in the relationship between interpersonal ability. Second, in the relationship between emotional parentalization, a sub-factor of parental experience, and first relationship establishment, a sub-factor of interpersonal ability, limited emotional recognition showed a complete mediating effect. Third, in the relationship between emotional parentalization, a sub-factor of parental experience, and dependence on others, a sub-factor of interpersonal ability, limited emotional recognition showed a partial mediating effect. Fourth, in the relationship between physical and emotional parentalization, a sub-factor of parental experience, and first relationship establishment, a sub-factor of interpersonal ability, the non-orthodox thinking tendency showed a complete mediating effect. Fifth, parental experience could not confirm the mediating effect of limited emotional expression in the relationship between interpersonal abilities. Sixth, in the relationship between physical parentalization, a sub-factor of parental experience, and self-exposure, a sub-factor of interpersonal ability, the non-orthodox thinking tendency of passive emotional expression showed a partial mediating effect. Seventh, in the relationship between emotional parental experience, self-exposure, a sub-factor of interpersonal ability, and dependence on others, the non-orthodox thinking tendency, a sub-factor of passive emotional expression, showed a partial mediating effect.
This study found that among the sub-factors of parental experience, physical parentalization, emotional parentalization, and over-effort influence differently and independently. Physical and emotional parentalization, a sub-factor of parental experience, was significant in one part of interpersonal ability, and over-effort was not. Therefore, the results of this study provide a detailed understanding depending on what kind of parental experience they have in the parental experience, and suggest that a multi-sided interpretation and differential counseling approach are needed according to the characteristics of each sub-factor. Accordingly, this study is significant in that it is difficult for college students who have experienced physical and emotional parentalization in their childhood to recognize their emotions and express them passively according to their emotional response capabilities. It is significant that it suggests that there is a need for research and development of counseling intervention plans and programs so that they can stay and recognize their emotions in interpersonal relationships and express them in their own language.