Abstract

This study attempted to verify the mediating effect of internalized shame on the relationship between socially prescribed perfectionism and speech anxiety, as well as the moderated mediating effect of cognitive emotion regulation in the path through which internalized shame mediates speech anxiety. To this end, a study was conducted with 223 male and female college students in Chungnam Province. The measurement tools included socially prescribed perfectionism, internalized shame, speech anxiety, and cognitive-emotional control strategy scales. The data were analyzed using descriptive analysis, correlation, and hierarchical regression using SPSS 23.0 and SPSS Process Macro 3.4. Results of this study are as follows: First, socially prescribed perfectionism, internalized shame, speech anxiety, and maladaptive strategies showed a significant positive correlation with one another, and a negative correlation with maladaptive strategies. Second, internalized shame was completely mediated by the relationship between socially prescribed perfectionism and speech anxiety. Third, according to the level of adaptive strategy, which is a sub-factor of the cognitive-emotional regulation strategy, the moderating effect of internalized shame on speech anxiety differed, but the maladaptive strategy showed no moderating effect. Finally, the moderated mediating effect of the adaptive strategy was verified. Based on these results, intervention directions, limitations, and suggestions for future research are discussed.