Social anxiety model of parents with intellectual disabilities children: The role of parenting styles with mediation of cognitive emotion regulation strategies

Abstract Background & Purpose: The aim of research was determine the social anxiety model of parents of children with intellectual disability: The role of parenting styles with mediation of cognitive emotion regulation strategies. Materials & Method: The present study was descriptive from correlation type. The research population was parents of intellectual disability elementary students of Urmia city in 2020-21 academic years. The sample size based on Krejcie and Morgan table determined 200 people who according to prevalence of covid-19 were selected by available method. The research tools were social anxiety inventory (Connor et al., 2000), parenting styles questionnaire (Baumrind, 1991) and cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire (Garnefski et al., 2001). Data were analyzed by structural equation modeling method in SPSS-26 and LISREL-8.5 software. Results: The findings showed that permissive parenting on positive strategy of cognitive emotion regulation, authoritarian and authoritative parenting on positive and negative strategies of cognitive emotion regulation, and positive and negative strategies of cognitive emotion regulation and permissive and authoritarian parenting on social anxiety had a direct and significant effect (P<0.05), but permissive parenting on negative strategy of cognitive emotion regulation and authoritative parenting on social anxiety didn't have a direct and significant effect (P>0.05). Also, authoritarian and authoritative parenting with mediation of positive and negative strategies had an indirect and significant effect on social anxiety (P<0.05), but the permissive parenting with mediation of positive and negative strategies had no indirect and significant effect on social anxiety (P<0.05). Conclusion: According to the findings, for reduce social anxiety can provide basis for modifying parenting styles and cognitive emotion regulation strategies.