Development and evaluation of social anxiety based on metacognitive beliefs and early maladaptive schemas mediating by cognitive strategies of emotion regulation in adolescent girls

Background: social anxiety is one of the most common and debilitating disorders in the age of education, and has adverse consequences in many aspects of the lives of people with the disorder. But the main issue of the present study is whether the structural model of social anxiety based on metacognitive beliefs and early maladaptive schemas mediating by cognitive strategies of emotion regulation fits with experimental data?. Aims: The present study was carried out to develop and evaluate the Structural model of social anxiety based on the metacognitive beliefs and early maladaptive schemas mediating by cognitive strategies of emotion regulation. Methods: This study was correlation based on structural equations. From the statistical population female high school students of Kermanshah in academic year 1398-99, 346 students were selected using multi-stage cluster sampling method, and they completed four questionnaires of Metacognitive Questionnaire for Children (MCQ-A), the short form of Early Maladaptive Schemas (YSQ- SF (, Cognitive Emotion Regulation and Social Anxiety. Results: The results showed that three subscales of. metacognitive beliefs, negative metaworry(β =0/35, p