investigating the role of the relationship between the quality of parent-child relationship in social anxiety of female high school students in tehran

Objective given that social anxiety is a high prevalence disorder that affects the social functioning of individuals and one of its essential consequences in children and adolescents is a severe school dropout. therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the quality of parent-child relationship in social anxiety of female high school students in the fifth district of tehran.methods  the present research method was descriptive-correlational and its statistical population included all-female high school students in the fifth district of tehran. from this number, a sample of 348 people was selected by the available sampling method based on the morgan table. leibwitz (1987) and pianta (1994) parent-child relationship scale were used to collect data and pearson correlation coefficient was used to analyze the data.results the results showed that there is a significant negative correlation between the parent-child relationship and social anxiety (p <0.01).conclusion  finally, considering the quality of the parent-child relationship in predicting social anxiety, the development of any program to improve the quality of the parent-child relationship can lead to the prevention or reduction of social anxiety in adolescents.