Relationship Between Parenting Style, Interpersonal Trust And University Student Exchanges Anxiety

Social interaction plays an important part in university students'daily life. Meanwhile, students'capability of social interaction is one of significant factors to grade his comprehensive quality. However, in terms of social interactive capability, most students have some obvious handicaps, among which, anxiety is quite common. Related to social backgrounds, individual anxiety is expressed in forms of nervousness, anxiety and even fear while conducting social interactions. The individuals are likely to avoid or refuse social interaction because he would keep worrying about his improper communicative manners. At present, anxiety is one of common psychological problems among students and the number of students suffering anxiety goes up annually. In this case, the study on the anxiety of students is of great significance. Based on the theory of Leary's IAS, Yue Dongmei's EMBU as well as Rotter's ITS, this essay is to conduct a survey on the current situations of anxiety among students, explore the relationships between communicative anxiety and the rearing patterns as well as the interpersonal relationships in order to provide theoretical and practical support in precaution of communicative anxiety among university students.Results:1. The overall level of anxiety of university students is relatively high. The level of anxiety varies distinctively from sexes, social backgrounds, subjects, household financial conditions and the satisfaction of individual healthy conditions. In addition, anxiety has nothing to do with parents'professions and educational backgrounds.2. Anxiety in communication relates to the rearing patterns. Anxiety is in negative correlation with feeling and understanding in rearing patterns while in positive correlation with excessive interference and overprotection by both mother and father, father's preference, mother's decline and deny as well as mother's punishment and rigorousness. Consequently, positive rearing pattern is helpful in taking precautions against and reduce the possibility of anxiety.3. A negative correlation is found between anxiety and interpersonal trust.4.Regression analysis shows that the following elements can be considered as predictive factors:the feeling and understanding in the rearing patterns, father's overprotection, mother's excessive interference and overprotection, father's punishment and rigorousness, father's preference as well as the interpersonal trust. 5. Interpersonal trust functions as a medium between rearing patterns (feeling and understanding of parents) and anxiety.