The Influence of Family Cohesion on Shyness of Contemporary College Students: The Mediation Role of Emotional Warmth

Abstract

To explore the impact of family cohesion on shyness of college students, and the mediation role of emotional warmth between cohesion and shyness. The study used the FACESII-CV, the s.EMBU and the Shyness Scale to study 503 college students. The results show that the main effect of shy gender and grade is significant and the main effect of environment is not significant, family cohesion of college students is significantly positively correlated with emotional warmth, and significantly negatively correlated with shyness; emotional warmth is significantly negatively correlated with shyness; emotional warmth plays a completely mediation role between cohesion and shyness.