- Title
- Coping : gender differences in mediating the relationship between social anxiety and depression
- Creator
- Moore, Kathleen; Alexi, Nektarios; Argyrides, Marios
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/184628
- Identifier
- vital:16545
- Identifier
- ISBN:1527-7143 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Social anxiety is a debilitating condition for many people, and if it is untreated can lead to depression. It was our contention that proactive coping strategies would mediate this relationship. As the incidence data for social anxiety and depression differ by gender, we aimed to test our hypothesis by gender. Two hundred and twenty-one Cypriot-Greek university students (62 males) with a mean age of 24.82 years (SD = 4.97) completed Greek versions of the Social Phobia Inventory, The Deakin Coping Scale, and the Centre for Epidemiological Studies-Depression scale. Following tests of invariance and common method variance, we ascertained significant direct paths between social anxiety and depression for males and females. Coping significantly mediated this relationship but only for females. Clearly for females, promoting proactive coping strategies is likely to directly reduce depression, as well as having a mediating role between social anxiety and depression. Implications for clinicians and future research are discussed. © NAJP.
- Publisher
- North American Journal of Psychology
- Relation
- North American Journal of Psychology Vol. 22, no. 4 (2020), p. 543-554
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright @ NAJP
- Subject
- 5201 Applied and Developmental Psychology; 5203 Clinical and Health Psychology; 5205 Social and Personality Psychology
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