The Relationship Between College Students' Loving Status and Appearance-Based Rejection Sensitivity: The Mediating Role of Self-Perceived Attractiveness

Abstract

Abstract: The present study aimed to explore the relationships among college students' loving status (in love or single), self-rated attractiveness and appearance-based rejection sensitivity. A sample of Chinese college students (N=549) was recruited randomly from Beijing, Sichuan and Anhui provinces who completed the Loving Status Questionnaire, Appearance-based Rejection Sensitivity Scale, Rejection Sensitivity Questionnaire, Social Comparisons Based on Appearance and Self-Rated Attractiveness in the form of classes. Results indicated that: 1) college students' loving status, self-rated attractiveness and appearance-based rejection sensitivity significantly correlated with one another; 2) college students' loving status could positively predict self-rated attractiveness, and negatively predict appearance-based rejection sensitivity; 3) self-rated attractiveness played a fully mediating role between loving status and appearance-based rejection sensitivity (indirect effect was 0.47), namely loving status reduced the level of appearance-based rejection sensitivity by promoting the self-perception of individuals' attractiveness.

Key words: college students’ loving status, self-perceived attractiveness, appearance-based rejection sensitivity

摘要： 主要探讨大学生恋爱状态（恋爱中或单身）、个体外表吸引力自我觉知与外表拒绝敏感性之间的关系。采用恋爱状态问卷、外表拒绝敏感性量表、拒绝敏感度量表、基于外表的社会比较以及吸引力自评等测量工具，以班级为单位向随机选取的北京、四川以及安徽等地多所高校大学生进行施测，有效被试549人。结果发现：（1）大学生恋爱状态、外表吸引力自我觉知和外表拒绝敏感性之间相关显著；（2）大学生恋爱状态能够显著正向预测外表吸引力自我觉知，也能显著负向预测外表拒绝敏感性；（3）外表吸引力自我觉知在恋爱状态与外表拒绝敏感性之间具有显著的完全中介作用（间接效应值为0.47），恋爱状态通过提升个体主观评估的外表吸引力，从而降低外表拒绝敏感性。

关键词: 大学生恋爱状态, 外表吸引力自我觉知, 外表拒绝敏感性

CLC Number:

B849

CHEN Yunxiang, DENG Yanhe, LIU Xiangping. The Relationship Between College Students' Loving Status and Appearance-Based Rejection Sensitivity: The Mediating Role of Self-Perceived Attractiveness[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2020, 18(1): 107-112.

陈云祥, 邓衍鹤, 刘翔平. 大学生恋爱状态与外表拒绝敏感性：外表吸引力自我觉知的中介作用[J]. 心理与行为研究, 2020, 18(1): 107-112.

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