Research on the Correlation between Personalistic Extroversion Tendency and Online Social Anxiety Based on Data Analysis: Chained Mediator Effect and Suppressing Effect of Mindfulness and Online Self-Disclosure

Online social anxiety seriously affects individuals' interpersonal communication. The current studies usually only aim for the development of online social anxiety, but little is known about its relationship with realistic social anxiety and different mechanisms of extroverts and introverts. In this paper, how personalistic extroversion tendency affects online social anxiety and realistic social anxiety respectively is explored, the mediator effect of mindfulness and online self-disclosure in the relationship between personalistic extroversion tendency and online social anxiety is analyzed based upon the mindfulness-based cognitive therapy theory, and the model of chained mediator effect is established and its properties are analyzed. A suppressing effect is also found and analyzed. The results suggest that mindfulness and online self-disclosure play different roles in online social anxiety of extroverts and introverts and provide a structural equation model of the development and intervention mechanism of online social anxiety.