Abstract
The aim of this study was to present the power of high school students' parents’ attitudes and submissive behaviors' in predicting social anxiety. The study group consisted of 298 students (159 female, 139 male) from two different high schools who were studying in the 2018-2019 academic year and voluntarily participated in the study. The study was carried out in accordance with the relational screening model. In this study, the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SASA) was used to determine the social anxiety levels of the participants, while the Parenting Attitude Scale (PAS) and the Submissive Behaviors Scale (SBS) was used for determining the parents’ attitudes. Multiple regression analysis was applied to determine the power of secondary school students in predicting social anxiety levels. There was a medium level positive correlation found between high school students' total social anxiety scores and submissive behaviors. Key words: Social anxiety predictors, parent attitudes, submissive behaviors, adolescents.
Highlights
Adolescence is the period after childhood and before adulthood during which an individual undergoes growth and development
Submissive behaviors were found to explain approximately 26% of the total variance related to social anxiety. This finding shows that as the submissive behaviors of high school students increased, their social anxiety levels increased and that submissive behaviors in adolescents are an important predictor of social anxiety
It is seen that as the submissive behaviors of secondary school students increase, their social anxiety levels increase and submissive behaviors in adolescents are an important predictor of social anxiety
Summary
Adolescence is the period after childhood and before adulthood during which an individual undergoes growth and development. Adolescents attempt to cope with their emotions of inadequacy during this period, but they are susceptible to negative thoughts (Townsend, 2012), and these environments are avoided or endured with excessive anxiety (Kring et al, 2017). This period is seen as a point of conflict and sharing between adulthood and childhood (Parman, 2017). Adolescents may face the problem of social anxiety and this is a problem that can be encountered more frequently among themselves (Tassin et al, 2014) It is described by DSM-5 (APA, 2013) as a clear and constant feeling of fear of meeting new people and being observed by others. Authoritarian parenting, in particular, is connected with social anxiety (Rana et al, 2013)
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