A Comparison of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies ,Anxiety sensitivity and Parenting Style in Mothers of Adolescences with Anxiety Symptoms and with Normal Adolescences

Tthis study compare the cognitive emotional regulation strategies, anxiety sensitivity and parenting style in mother of adolescences with anxiety symptoms and normal adolescences.The sample was selected in two stages and in the form of cluster samplanig.it includes seven ,eight and nine grade which was studding in 4 district of shiraz city's high schools in 1397-1398.they completed the beck anxiety questionnaires and dass anxiety questionnaires then due the cutting point of these questionnaires 100 students was selected and divided to the group(50mothers of adolescences with anxiety symptoms and50 mother of normal adolescences)they filled Garnefski and Karaj questionnaire and also Taylor and Kaks questionnaire and Bamrind questionnaire.to analyze the data the on way analysis of variance and tukey's test were used.The results show Thad there are significant differences between the average of two groups.in terms of cognitive emotion regulation the difference was in adapted strategies and non-adapted strategies the average of adaptive strategies was higher in normal mother and the average of nonadaptive strategies was higher in mother of anxiety group.In anxiety sensitivity there are significant differences in all of sub scales in both group of mothers and the average of anxiety group in all sub scale was higher than normal group.in parenting style the significant differences is in authoritarian style and easy parenting style.in this way the anxiety group in both scales has higher average than normal group. The result showed that parenting styles ,cognitive emotion regulation strategies and their reaction to anxiety symptom is a factor in health of adolescents.