The discriminational role early maladaptive schemas and stress coping strategies in fear of negative evaluation of females with precocious puberty

The purpose of this study was to discriminational role early maladaptive schemas and stress coping strategies in fear of negative evaluation of females with precocious puberty. The research design was a two-group diagnostic function. The statistical population consists of all the females with precocious puberty of high school Tehran city in year academic 2018-2019. For that 30 females with precocious puberty with fear of negative evaluation and 30 females with precocious puberty without fear of negative evaluation social anxiety were picked through convenience sampling and schema questionnaire – short form of Young (2005), Ways of Coping Questionnaire (WCQ) of Lazarus & Folkman's (1998) and brief fear of negative evaluation scale of Leary (1983) were administered to them and were analyzed using discriminant analysis. The results of the discriminant analysis showed that impaired autonomy & performance and secure stress coping strategies female students can help to prediction fear of negative evaluation. The function discriminant analysis assigned 88/3 percent of the females with precocious puberty with and without fear of negative evaluation. The findings clarified the importance of these variables in distinguishing female’s precocious puberty with and without fear of negative evaluation; hence these factors can be used in prevention of anxiety-damaging behaviors and fear of premature puberty by counselors and psychologists.