State-Trait and Separation Anxiety Among Mothers with an Only Child Entering Kindergarten

Abstract

Parents are the first and best teachers for their children. In homeschooling, the level of separation anxiety in kindergarten children is closely related to the level of anxiety in their mothers. The mother's behavior has a greater impact on the child than the father's. Parents' attitudes toward their children, their attitudes toward kindergarten, their own level of education, and their ability to regulate their emotions all affect the level of separation anxiety of children with their mothers. Therefore, it is particularly important to study the anxiety state of mothers when studying kindergarten anxiety in younger children. Since children spend most of their time with their mothers after leaving kindergarten, they chose to study the state-traits and separation anxiety of mothers of only children entering kindergarten". As early as Bowlby's attachment theory, the infant's emotional attachment to the caregiver was mentioned. Hawke et al. argued that, based on Spielberg's theory of state-trait anxiety, the mother's parent-child separation anxiety is a state of infant anxiety caused by short-term separation. When mothers experience occasional separation anxiety, the mother's state emotions include the following three perceived levels: the mother's self-anxiety, the mother's awareness of her child's anxiety, and the mother's anxiety about her child's lack of maternal care.