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. 2021 Feb 11:12:613543.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.613543. eCollection 2021.

Examining the Relationships Among Parental Overprotection, Military Life Adjustment, Social Anxiety, and Collective Efficacy

Kyounghee Bark  1 , Jung Hee Ha  2 , Juliet Jue  3
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Examining the Relationships Among Parental Overprotection, Military Life Adjustment, Social Anxiety, and Collective Efficacy

Kyounghee Bark et al. Front Psychol. .

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to verify the relationships among parental overprotection (PO), military life adjustment (MLA), social anxiety, and collective efficacy (CE). There have been studies examining the influence of each of these variables in isolation, but no study has examined these variables simultaneously. Two hundred and thirty-one male conscript soldiers participated in the study. Results indicated that all four variables were correlated with one another. Through hierarchical regression analysis, we determined that social anxiety fully mediated the relationship between PO and MLA. Furthermore, we found that CE moderated the relationship between PO and social anxiety. Finally, we confirmed the moderated mediation effect of CE in our proposed model. We discuss the implications and limitations of this model.

Keywords: collective efficacy; military life adjustment; parental overprotection; social anxiety; soldiers.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Hypothesized model of the relationships among parental overprotection, social anxiety, collective efficacy, and military life adjustment.
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Interaction effect of parental overprotection and collective efficacy. All estimates are standardized coefficients.
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Final model of the relationships among parental overprotection, social anxiety, collective efficacy, and military life adjustment. ***p < 0.001.
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