The Role of Perceived Childhood Attachment, Family Functioning and Attributional Styles in Social Anxiety

Subject Areas : روان درمانگری

Somaie Khorashadizadeh ¹ , Fatemeh Shahabizadeh ² , Reza Dastjerdi ³

1 - MA in Clinical Psychology
2 - PhD Islamic Azad University Birjand Branch
3 - PhD Medical Sciences Birjand University

Received: 2015-06-02 Accepted : 2015-06-02 Published : 2012-06-21

Keywords: social anxiety, attachment to parents, Family functioning, attributional styles,

Abstract :

This study examined the role that perceived childhood attachment, family functioning and attributional styles have in college students' social anxiety. 700 students were selected by multistage cluster sampling from Azad and Payam-e-Noor universities of Birjand city. Participants completed Measures of Childhood Attachment to Each Parent (Hazan & Shaver, 1986), The Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scale (Olson, Portner & Lavee, 1985), Attribution Styles Questionnaire (Peterson & Seligman, 1984) and Social Anxiety Scale (Watson & Friend, 1969). Findings demonstrated that attributional styles, insecure attachment to mother and family cohesion directly predicted social anxiety; attachment to parents by cohesion predicted success attribution and family cohesion by success attribution predicted increase and decrease in social anxiety. Based on the results it could be concluded that family cohesion and success attribution decrease social anxiety, whereas, insecurity to mother and failure attribution increase social anxiety