Investigating The Relationship Between Perfectionism and Social Anxiety WithMediation by Cognitive Insight

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between perfectionism and social anxiety with mediation by cognitive insight in the staff welfare Kurdistan Province.

The present study is fundamental in terms of purpose and is descriptive in terms of data collection method. The statistical population of this study was all welfare Kurdistan Province, 220 people were selected by simple random sampling method and completed Tehran Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (TMPS)(1386), Jorabak social anxiety (1996) and Becks Cognitive Insight Scale (BCIS)(2004).

the findings showed that perfectionism has a positive and significant relationship with social anxiety and has a negative and significant relationship with cognitive insight. Also when cognitive insight entered the equations as a mediating variable, the indirect effect of perfectionism through cognitive insight on social anxiety was significantly negative.

according to the results, perfectionism and cognitive insight are one of the determining factors in explaining and predict of social anxiety. Future studies are necessary to confirm the results of this study.