The investigation of social anxiety disorder in terms of early maladaptive schemas and parenting styles

The main purpose of this study to investigate social anxiety disorder relation of early maladaptive schemas and parenting styles. 73 people participated in the research. 37of the participants were diagnosed with social anxiety disorder and the remaining 36 were not symptomatic of social anxiety disorder. The informed consent form, demographic information form, Young Schema Questionnaire - Short Form 3 (YSQ-SF3) Young Parenting Inventory are given to the participant. Therefore, having social anxiety disorder is related with disconnection/ rejection schema domain in relation with Blittleing/Fault Finding mother-father style and Controlling/Shaping mother and Undisciplined/Laissez-Faire father, and having impaired autonomy schema domain is related to Conditional/Achievement-Focused mother-father parenting style, pessimistic father, Blittleing/Fault Finding and Undisciplined/Laissez-Faire father parenting styles. On the other hand, ıt has been found the scores of social anxiety disorder diagnosed group significantly different in terms of disconnection /rejection and impaired autonomy domains among healthy individuals. Furthermore, only the father's Blittleing/Fault Finding parenting style and the impaired autonomy schema domain were found to be marginally significant on having social anxiety disorder. Keywords : Social Anxiety Disorder, Early Maladaptive Schemas, Parenting Styles.