Relationship between Perceived Acceptance and Social Anxiety among Adolescents: Mediating Role of Emotional Intelligence

Abstract

Adolescence is an essential developmental level marked via way of means of elevated sensitivity to look approbation and social appraisal. Adolescents` mental adjustment is substantially inspired via way of means of perceived acceptability, and social tension regularly manifests throughout this phase. Emotional intelligence has been advised as a protecting trait that can buffer towards tension symptoms, however little examine has checked out its mediation effect among perceived popularity and social tension, mainly in collectivistic cultural situations. In a pattern of three hundred students (a long time 10 to 19) from public, private, and semi-authorities faculties in Islamabad, Pakistan, the modern examine investigated the relationships among social tension, emotional intelligence, and perceived popularity. The examine followed a cross-sectional correlational technique. The contributors finished the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale for Children and Adolescents (LSAS-CA), the Schutte Self-Report Emotional Intelligence Test (SSEIT), and the Perceived Acceptance Scale (PAS). Pearson correlation and mediation evaluation had been performed. The outcomes confirmed that social tension and emotional intelligence had been negatively correlated. However, neither social tension nor emotional intelligence had been proven to be considerably correlated with perceived popularity. According to a mediation examine, the affiliation among social tension and perceived popularity became now no longer considerably mitigated via way of means of emotional intelligence. The findings display that even as emotional intelligence via way of means of itself protects towards social tension, it can't account for the connection among tension and perceived popularity on this cultural context.