| Abstract [eng] |
Social anxiety usually occurs in particular and is usually diagnosed for the first time as a disorder in adolescence. Experiencing severe social anxiety significantly complicates the everyday-life functioning of adolescents and leads to severe consequences that affect their lives in the future. Some research links social anxiety to perfectionism, while other find that parents, both directly and indirectly, may contribute to the development of their children‘s social anxiety or that the role of parental mentalization is important in the relationship between parents and children. The aim of this study is to search for relationship between parent perfectionistic self-presentation and other-oriented perfectionism, mentalization and parental mentalization, and adolescent social anxiety. The study included 50 adolescents (22 girls, 28 boys) aged 12-17 years (M = 14,08, SD = 1,83) and 74 their fathers and mothers aged 38-62 (M = 46,18, SD = 5,38). Adolescent social anxiety was assessed on the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale for Children and Adolescents (LSAS-CA, Masia-Warner C, Storch EA, Pincus DB, Klein RG, Heimberg RG, 2003). Parental perfectionism was assessed on the Perfectionistic Self-presentation Scale (PSPS, Hewitt et al., 2003) and on 1990 – revised Other-Oriented Perfectionism Scale (1990 OOP, Hewitt & Flett, 1990). Parental mentalization was assessed on the The Mentalization Scale: A Self-Report Measure for the Assessment of Mentalizing Capacity (MentS, Dimitrijević et al., 2018) and the Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (PRFQ, Luyten, Mayes, et al., 2017). Analysis of the results revealed that of all the aspects of parental perfectionism studied in this reseach, only Nondisplay of Imperfection of parents is significantly associated with social anxiety of adolescents and predicts the risk of adolescent social anxiety disorder. Nondisplay of Imperfection of father’s, not mother‘s, is significantly associated with adolescent social anxiety, but does not predict the risk of social anxiety disorder. Parental mentalization, prementalization and certainty about adolescents mental states play a role along with parents’ Nondisplay of Imperfection in predicting adolescent social anxiety risk, but there is no moderation effect. |
