Relationship of social anxiety and parental rearing style and self-esteem among medical freshman students

Objective To explore the relatianship of social anxiety and parental rearing style and self-es-teem among medical students, and to provide theoretical guidance for students' mental health. Methods 346 medical students were assessed with interaction anxiousness scale(IAS), Egala minnen on bardndosnauppforstran (EMBU) and self-esteem scale (SES). Results Medical students' social anxiety was negatively correlated with emotional warmth and understanding of parents (FF1, MFI) (r=-0.162,-0.150, P<0.01) and self-esteem (r -0.355, P <0.01), and positively correlated with mother's over-interference, over-protection, refusal, rejection and favoring subject(MF2, MF3, MF5) (r=0.137,0.127,0.116, P<0.05). Stepwise regression analysis re-vealed that father's warmth and understanding and father's over-protection and self-esteem enter regression equa-tion and adjusted R square was 0.047 and 0.123. Conclusion The medical students' social anxiety was influ-enced by EMBU and SES, but the level was lower. Key words: Social anxiety ;  Parental rearing style ;  Self-esteem ;  Medical students ;