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Objectives The purpose of this study is to identify the effects of covert narcissism on social interaction anxiety in university students and also to verify the double effects of socially-prescribed perfectionism and self-concept clarity in the relationship between the covert narcissism and social interaction anxiety. Methods For this, survey has been conducted on 288 male and female university students in the use of covert narcissism scale(CNS), social interaction anxiety scale(SIAS), socially-prescribed perfectionism scale (HMPS), and self-concept clarity scale(SCCS). For collected data, correlation among variables has been verified by using SPSS 24.0 and Process Macro along with dual mediation effect. At the same time, bootstrapping was conducted to verify the significance of indirect effect. Results Results of the study are as follows. First of all, it turned out that there was a significant correlation among the covert narcissism, social anxiety, socially-prescribed perfectionism, and self-concept clarity. Covert narcissism turned out to be significantly positively correlated with socially-prescribed perfectionism and social anxiety but to be significantly negatively correlated with self-concept clarity. Socially-prescribed perfectionism turned out to be positively correlated with social anxiety but to be significantly correlated with self-concept clarity. Social-concept clarity turned out to be significantly correlated with social anxiety. Secondly, socially-prescribed perfectionism turned out to be correlated with the covert narcissism and social anxiety. Third, self-concept clarity turned out to have a partial mediation effect in the relationship between the covert narcissism and social anxiety. Fourth, there was a dual mediation effect on socially-prescribed perfectionism and self-concept clarity in the relationship between the covert narcissism and social anxiety. Conclusions This study is meaningful to suggest a direction of efficient consultative involvement for university students with high level of the covert narcissism who visit counseling center due to social anxiety.
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