Effects of Parental Educational Anxiety on Self-efficacy in High School Students: A Mediating Role of Parental Psychological Control

Yifan Dong

doi:10.54097/ehss.v22i.13356

Authors

Yifan Dong

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54097/ehss.v22i.13356

Keywords:

Parents education anxiety, parents psychological control, self-efficacy, high school students.

Abstract

Educational anxiety is gradually becoming an urgent problem in China. This study surveyed the current situation of parental educational anxiety, parental psychological control, and general self-efficacy among high school students, and explored the relationships between these three variables. In this study, 427 high school students and their parents were investigated. The results show that: (1) there is no significant difference in parental educational anxiety. (2) Parents 'educational anxiety, parents' psychological control and self-efficacy have significant differences in the gender of their children, which is higher in boys than girls. (3) Parents 'education anxiety and psychological control, and parental education anxiety and children's self-efficacy. (4) Parents 'psychological control and children's self-efficacy, and the relationship was not significant, and the mediation model was not established. This study provides a reference program for the education anxiety of high school parents: parents should be aware of the impact of their own education anxiety on their children, properly solve or transfer their education anxiety, and appropriately carry out home-school cooperation to cultivate their children in many aspects.

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