The mediating role of anxiety to perform social skills between parental attachment and adolescents' self-efficacy

• Main Authors: Parsa, Nakisa, Redzuan, Ma'rof, Yaacob, Siti Nor, Parsa, Parisa, Parsa, Bita
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Marsland Press 2014
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/35751/1/The%20mediating%20role%20of%20anxiety%20to%20perform%20social%20skills%20between%20parental%20attachment%20and%20adolescents%27%20self-efficacy.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/35751/; http://www.lifesciencesite.com/lsj/life1110/

The present study examined the mediating role of adolescent’s anxiety to perform social skills on the relationships between perceived parental attachment and self-efficacy among 374 Iranian adolescents aged 17 to 19 years old. Survey results showed that parental attachment was significantly related to an adolescent’s self-efficacy (p<0.05). Moreover, the results revealed that adolescents with low self-efficacy experienced higher anxiety to perform social skills (p<0.05). Anxiety to perform social skills mediated the relationship between parental attachment and adolescents’ self-efficacy (p<0.05). The findings highlighted the mediating role of anxiety to perform social skills on the relationship between parental attachment and adolescent’s self-efficacy.