The relationship between dysfunctional attitudes and Social Anxiety Disorder in adolescents (students): the mediating role of Emotion Regulation

Abstract

the aim of this study was to test the mediating role of emotion-regulation in the relationship between dysfunctional attitudes and social-anxiety disorder' symptoms.The sample of the research was including 241 high school girl's students in Tehran which were in the second multi-stage and was selected by random cluster sampling .The participants answered the questions of Social-Anxiety Scale for Adolescents(SASA),Dysfunctional Attitudes Scale for Child and Adolescents(DAS-CA)and Emotion-Regulation Questionnaire(DERS).In this study, inorder to test the mediating role at emotion-regulation in the relationship between dysfunctional attitudes and social-anxiety disorder' symptoms, structure equation model have been used. The results of the study showed that dysfunctional attitudes is having a positive and significant relationship between emotion-regulation and social-anxiety disorder. Also, this model showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between emotion-regulation and social-anxiety disorder.In this model, the relationship between emotion-regulation and social-anxiety was positive and significant.In addition, results showed that the partially mediated model of emotion-regulation on the relationship between dysfunctional attitudes and social-anxiety, had acceptable fit to data.In sum, on the one hand, the results provide further support for prediction of social-anxiety disorder's symptoms by dysfunctional attitudes and on the other hand, these findings show that the differentiation in numerical values related to emotion-regulation's variable is playing a role in anticipation he shared variance between conceptual cicles of dysfunctional attitudes and social-anxiety in adolescents.

Keywords

• adolescents
• dysfunctional attitudes
• emotion regulation
• social anxiety disorder