Overprotective parenting as a predictor of social anxiety in young adults
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2017
Authors
Rafia Farrukh
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UMT Lahore
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The present study focused on finding the relationship between overprotective parenting style and social anxiety in young adults, university students. Overprotective parenting predicts social anxiety in young adults (Spokas & Heimberg, 2009) so the current study was focused on evaluating whether such relationship exists in Pakistani culture. Convenience sampling strategy was used for the data collection. The study participants aged between 18-24 years. The data was collected from 202 participants including 100 women and 102 men from one university of Lahore. Instruments used for the data collection were, Social Anxiety Questionnaire for Adults (SAQ-A30) (Caballo, Salazar, Arias, Irurtia & Calderero, 2012) and the Parental Bonding Instrument (Parker, Tupling & Brown, 1979). It was assessed how parental overprotection and care were associated with social anxiety in young adults. The results revealed that mother and father overprotection were significantly associated with social anxiety. Father care and overprotection were positive significant predictors of social anxiety, whereas mother overprotection and care were non-significant predictors. It was concluded that overprotective parenting has a strong association with social anxiety in young adults.