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The relationship of attachment, maternal emotional socialization, and maternal coping with social anxiety during adolescence

Mathews, Brittany Lynn

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2012, MA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Psychological Sciences.
The current study investigated specific family factors that may be associated with social anxiety symptoms in early adolescence. The specific factors included adolescents’ attachment security, maternal acceptance of adolescents’ emotions, quality of maternal advice, and maternal coping. Adolescents (ages 11-14) and their mothers participated in the study, during which they completed various questionnaires, interviews, and interaction tasks. Adolescents with greater social anxiety symptoms reported lower attachment security and had mothers who reported providing adolescents with lower quality of advice when the adolescents were upset. Attachment security, maternal acceptance of adolescents’ emotions, quality of maternal advice, and maternal coping accounted for 10% of the variance of adolescents’ social anxiety symptoms, and mothers’ self-reported quality of advice was the only unique predictor of social anxiety symptoms. The current study identified adolescents’ attachment security and mothers’ self-reported problem-focused advice as important factors relating to adolescents’ social anxiety symptoms. The findings add to the current literature on the relationship between parenting factors and social anxiety and have potential implications for the treatment of social anxiety in adolescents. Future research should include adolescents’ perceptions of parental behaviors and could utilize a longitudinal design to determine the directionality between parenting behaviors and adolescents’ social anxiety.
Kathryn Kerns, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Jeff Ciesla, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Josefina Grau, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Christopher Flessner, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
62 p.

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  • Mathews, B. L. (2012). The relationship of attachment, maternal emotional socialization, and maternal coping with social anxiety during adolescence [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1334094262

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Mathews, Brittany. The relationship of attachment, maternal emotional socialization, and maternal coping with social anxiety during adolescence. 2012. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1334094262.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Mathews, Brittany. "The relationship of attachment, maternal emotional socialization, and maternal coping with social anxiety during adolescence." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1334094262

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)