A Study On Family Factors Affecting Adolescent Anxiety

Anxiety disorder refers to the physical symptoms of tension and the negative emotional reactions characterized by worried towards unknown events about the future.Adequate anxiety does not affect the physical and mental health of teenagers,but excessive anxiety will not only cause anxiety disorder,affect the physical and mental health of teenagers,but also have a negative impact on their life and study.As for the influencing factors of adolescent anxiety,there are many researches on the family level,but no research has explored the relationship among parents’ cognitive emotion regulation strategies,parents’ anxiety,parenting style,adolescents’ cognitive emotion regulation strategies and adolescents’ anxiety.Previous studies have shown that parental anxiety affects adolescent anxiety through parenting style,adolescents hereafter adjust their cognitive adjustment strategies from the behavior patterns of nurturers to affect their mental health.This study is divided into three parts: The first study,from the perspective of adolescents,adopts the method of questionnaire survey to explore the influence of parenting style on cognitive emotion regulation strategies and anxiety,while revealing the influence path.A total of 1,400 students from grade one to grade three in Kunming city of Yunnan Province,Liupanshui City of Guizhou Province and Danzhou City of Hainan Province were surveyed.Results show: Parental rejection and paternal over-protection positively predict adolescent anxiety;maternal warmth negatively predicts adolescent anxiety.Adolescent cognitive emotion regulation strategies play a mediating role in parenting style and adolescent anxiety.In study 2,parents of adolescents were invited to participate in the questionnaire survey.We first embarked the study from the persepective of parents,aiming to find the influence of their own cognitive emotion regulation strategies on their own anxiety and parenting style.Then,492 pairs of paired samples were formed with the adolescents in study 1 to explore the relationship between parental anxiety and adolescent anxiety.The results showed that parental anxiety played a mediating role between parental cognitive emotion regulation strategy and adolescents’ perceived parenting style.Parents’ rejection and adolescents’ rumination and catastrophizing strategies play a chain mediating role in parental anxiety and adolescents’ anxiety.In the third study,qualitative interview was used to interview 4 teenagers to explore the influencing factors of adolescent anxiety in real scenes and verify whether parental anxiety has an impact on adolescent anxiety.The results review that parental anxiety did not necessarily affect adolescent anxiety,yet could only attest its correlation.