A Study On The Relationship Between Family Expressiveness And Preschoolers' Anxiety Disorder

Anxiety is one of children's main emotional disorders. It involves so many kinds of negative emotion as uneasiness, strain, fear, terror and so on, which differ in degrees and can mutually converse. Proper and specific-to-situation anxiety is a normal reaction, but over-anxiety and generalized anxiety is a pathology or an abnormal state, which influences children's intellect, emotion, social development and every day life. The recent research finds that such problem as anxiety in the early childhood will extend to their adolescence and even childhood if it is not duly intervened and treated. Many factors can make children's anxiety. As to children, they mainly have their activities in the family, so family expressiveness is correlated with anxiety disorder. This paper has begun with the elaborate literature review about all the researches relevant to anxiety disorder both at home and abroad, meanwhile presented a detailed analysis of the established issues in the prior research, and then brought forward the main topic of this research. An empirical investigation has been conducted among a group of 3-5 preschool children, which focused on the characteristics of family expressiveness and its influence in children's anxiety, based on the analysis about the developmental situation about children's anxiety and starting from family expressiveness. With all these findings, this paper aims to find vulnerability factors of children's anxiety, provide some pertinent suggestions and promote children's development.The main findings resulting from above studies are as follows:1. Children's anxiety gradually decreases with age. Children's anxiety aged 3 is significantly higher than those aged 4 and 5. As for anxiety symptoms, only separation anxiety appears different with age. Accordingly children's anxiety aged 3 is significantly higher than those aged 4 and 5, and those aged 4 are naturally worse than those aged 5.2. The anxiety, fear of physical injury and social phobia of girls are significantly higher than those of boys, other symptoms do not have significant gender differences.3. The highest level of children's anxiety turns out to be fear of physical injury, followed by the separation anxiety; the generalized anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder come third, and finally the social phobia.4. Active family expressiveness has significant differences in levels of education background. Active family expressiveness with undergraduate and graduate program background is significantly higher than those with two or three-year undergraduate program background. Negative family expressiveness without even two or three-year undergraduate program background is significantly higher than those with two or three-year undergraduate program background.5. Negative family expressiveness has significant positive correlations with children's anxiety and its symptoms. The more obvious the characteristic of negative family expressiveness show in their families, the higher children's performance score goes, which means it's more possible for the anxiety disorder to happen.