The Relationship Between Parenting Style And Anxiety Of Rural Primary School Children

In recent years,children's anxiety problems have attracted more and more attention.Children who are in a state of anxiety for a long time will not only affect the normal study and life,but also have an impact on children's physical and mental growth.Parenting style is a kind of relatively stable behavior and behavior tendency in the daily life of the parents,and it is the comprehensive reflection of their educational concept and educational behavior.Previous studies have shown that parents' parenting behaviors are significantly related to children's anxiety.There was a significant negative correlation between the anxiety of primary school children and positive parenting styles,such as parental love,supportive behavior and democratic trust.There was a significant positive correlation between the anxiety of primary school children and negative parenting styles,such as severe punishment and excessive protection(Sun,Y.M.& Lu,Y.L.,1998).Therefore,it is of great practical value for the prevention and resolution of children's anxiety to find out the family related factors of children's anxiety and to take targeted family guidance and intervention measures.However,most of the researches on anxiety at home and abroad have focused on a specific anxiety state(such as social anxiety,separation anxiety,test anxiety);The research on children's anxiety and parenting style is more concerned about mother's parenting style,but less about father's parenting style;From the research point of view,most of the related researches are about the anxiety of middle school students and preschool children.Few studies have focused on the anxiety of primary school children.In addition,the research mainly focuses on the urban children,and there are few studies on the anxiety status of rural children.Given the above considerations,this study will investigate the basic characteristics of primary school children's anxiety and parental parenting syles under the background of rural primary school.On this basis,the relationship between parental parenting styles and anxiety of rural primary school children was further investigated.To explore this issue,not only help enhance the understanding about the relationship between family education and rural primary school children's anxiety,but also can provide some scientific basis for promoting children's mental health development of primary school for parents in Chinese rural families with proper upbringing.This study uses cross-sectional study,with the whole sample of 615 primary school students from grade three to grade six as subjects in two ordinary rural primary schools of Weifang City.EMBU-C and Spence Children's Anxiety Scale(SCAS)are as the research tools.The method of children's self-report was adminstered to collect the data of father's parenting styles,mother's parenting styles and children's anxiety.The aim was to investigate the relationship between father's parenting styles and mother's parenting styles with the anxiety of rural primary school children.The main conclusions are as follows:1.There are gender and grade differences in the anxiety of rural primary school children.There were significant gender differences in the total anxiety scores.The result is that girls' anxiety scores were significantly higher than boys.Grade 6children's social phobia is significantly higher than grade three,grade four and grade five children.The panic disorder of grade three and grade four children were significantly higher than those of grade six.2.There are gender and grade differences in parenting styles of rural primary school children.Paternal over protection and rejection of boys were significantly higher than girls.There were no significant gender effects on maternal parenting styles.Paternal over protection for children in grade three and grade five was significantly higher than that in grade six.Paternal emotional warmth to grade five children was significantly higher than that to grade three,grade four and grade six.Paternal parenting anxiety of children in grade five was significantly higher than thatof grade three and grade six.Maternal emotional warmth to grade five children was significantly higher than grade three,grade four and grade six children.Maternal parenting anxiety of children in grade five were significantly higher than those in grade three.There was no significant interaction between gender and grade in all factors of parenting styles.3.Correlation analysis showed that father's overprotection,rejection and children's separation anxiety,social phobia,obsessive compulsive disorder,panic disorder,generalized anxiety and anxiety scores were positively related.There was a positive correlation between father's parenting anxiety with the anxiety symptoms and the anxiety scores of children.4.The correlation analysis showed that there was a positive correlation between mother's over protection,refusal,parenting anxiety and children's anxiety symptoms and anxiety scores.5.The results of regression analysis showed that father's overprotection can positively predict children's obsessive compulsive disorder and generalized anxiety;father's refusal and parenting anxiety could positively predict the anxiety symptoms and the anxiety scores of children;father's emotional warmth can be negative to predict children's separation anxiety,social phobia,panic disorder,generalized anxiety disorder and anxiety scores.6.Mother's over protection can positively predict children's obsessive-compulsive disorder and generalized anxiety;Mother's rejection and parenting anxiety can significantly predict the anxiety symptoms and the anxiety scores of children;Mother's emotional warmth can negatively predict children's separation anxiety,social phobia,generalized anxiety and anxiety scores.