This finding highlights potential discrepancies in parent and student perceptions of anxiety-related impairment at school, with parents identifying anxiety as affecting their child’s cognitive experience, in comparison with students who indicated anxiety interfered with behaviors involving a social (in this case, public speaking) component. These types of discrepancies in child and parent perceptions of student functioning identify potentially important differences in perceptions of impairment.
Interesting to note the parent perception of cognitive issues versus the student perception of social issues. If a parent is seeing marks/grades go down or incomplete assignments on reporting, then this might be perceived as an inability to do the work. I read this as the parent looking at the symptom of the anxiety, and the student reporting on the root. LM