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The purpose of this study is to verify the double mediating effects of rejection sensitivity and emotional clarity in the relationship between new employees’ socially prescribed perfectionism and ambivalence over emotional expressiveness.
For this study, 429 new employees who work in office par...

The purpose of this study is to verify the double mediating effects of rejection sensitivity and emotional clarity in the relationship between new employees’ socially prescribed perfectionism and ambivalence over emotional expressiveness.
For this study, 429 new employees who work in office participated and they completed the online survey including Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale(only 15 questions are used to measure socially prescribed perfectionism), Korean Adult-Rejection Sensitivity Questionnaire; K-A-RSQ, Trait Meta-Mood Scale; TMMS(only 11 questions are used to measure Emotional Clarity), Ambivalence over Emotional Expressiveness Questionnaire : AEQ-K. Out of all the questionnaires, 349 data were used for the final
analysis, except for the insincere data. To analyze the data, SPSS 24.0 program and PROCESS Macro were used as well as statistical analysis, reliability analysis, Pearson's correlation analysis and bootstrapping method.
The main results of this study are as follows. First, all variables had a statistically significant correlation with each other as expected. Second, each of rejection sensitivity and emotional clarity had partial mediating effect between socially prescribed perfectionism and ambivalence over emotional expressiveness. Third, rejection sensitivity and emotional clarity had double mediating effect between socially prescribed perfectionism and ambivalence over emotional expressiveness. On the other hand, the direct effect of rejection sensitvity on ambivalence over emotional expressiveness were not significant. Based on these results, the implications and limitations of this study were discussed with the suggestions for the further study.