Abstract:

The objective of this study is to study the role of the need for social approval, unreasonable beliefs, perfectionism and gender as the subjects of parent exam concerns. The study group consists of a total of 178 student guardians, including 113 (63.48) women and 65 (36.52) men, in a central district center in the Middle Black Sea. The average age of participants in the study is 42.28, Ss = 5.90. As a data collection tool in the study, the Personal Information Form, the Social Approval Requirement Scale, the Non-Rational Faith Scale, the Parental Exam Anxiety Scale and the APS Excellence Scale were used. For data analysis to study the relationships between variables, the Pearson Moment's Collapse Correlation Scorecard and Multiple Regression Analysis were used to determine the power of independent variables to absorb dependent variables. The study found that positive perfectionism and social acceptance were significantly associated with parents' exam concerns, but their contribution to the regression model was not significant. Negative perfectionism, gender and non-rational beliefs all together revealed 26 percent of the parent's exam concern. The model, respectively, revealed that perfectionism later contributed to gender and ultimately unreasonable beliefs.

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