Researchers have noted parenting as one of the important environmental risk factors for social anxiety development
and tried to identify specific parenting dimensions and parental behaviors that contribute to social anxiety. Preexisting
parenting scales have greatly contributed to the identification of parenting dimensions and parental behaviors related to
social anxiety development. However, items of the preexisting parenting scales are not specifically designed to tap into
social anxiety constructs, implying relatively reduced sensitivity of these scales in detecting at-risk individuals for social
anxiety. Given the situation, this paper purported to review various definitions, aspects, or components of social
anxiety and speculate about the potential parenting factors that may contribute to each of these social anxiety
constructs. Through this process, we wanted to help future development of a parenting scale sensitive to social
anxiety. For this goal, developmental constructs related to social anxiety (behavioral inhibition and shyness) and various
definitions, aspects, dimensions of social anxiety that have been relatively well documented in the social anxiety
literature were reviewed, and parenting behaviors that could capture these social anxiety constructs were speculated.
Lastly, implications of the review and speculation to the deductive or mixed scale development of a parenting scale
that is specifically useful for social anxiety detection were discussed.