A Study On The Effect Of Parental Anxiety On Anxiety In Young Children

Anxiety is a more common emotional problem in early childhood,because the age characteristics of children make their anxiety easy to be ignored,which will directly affect the physical and mental health development of children,so it is very important to alleviate children’s anxiety.From previous studies,there are many influencing factors in children’s anxiety,and parents,as the main caregivers of young children,have received a lot of attention.At present,social competition is intensifying,parents’ parenting anxiety is becoming increasingly prominent,and family system theory believes that parents’ emotional problems will be delivered to children to a certain extent.Therefore,this study explores the influence of parental parenting anxiety on children’s anxiety,and examines the mediating role of parental parenting style,which is of great significance for understanding parents’ parenting anxiety,alleviating children’s anxiety,and guiding parents to choose appropriate parenting methods.In this study,1196 children and parents of young children in Xinjiang A region were selected as the research subjects,and the questionnaire survey method and interview method were used to conduct relevant research,and the parental parenting anxiety scale,preschool children’s anxiety scale and parental parenting style questionnaire were used as research tools.Firstly,the current situation of parental parenting anxiety,child anxiety and parental parenting style was analyzed,secondly,the influence mechanism of parental parenting anxiety on children’s anxiety was investigated,and finally,on the basis of the influence of parental parenting anxiety on children’s anxiety,the variables of parental parenting style were added to deeply analyze the mediating role of parental parenting style.The results showed that:(1)The level of parental parenting anxiety was slightly lower than average,and the security anxiety score was the highest.(2)The overall level of anxiety in young children was at the lower middle level,among which the physical injury fear score was the highest.(3)Among the parents’ upbringing,democratic parenting style scored the highest and doting parenting style scored the lowest.(4)There are different degrees of correlation between parental parenting anxiety,child anxiety and parental parenting style.There was a significant positive correlation between the overall and various dimensions of parental anxiety and the overall and all dimensions of children’s anxiety.The overall and various dimensions of parental parenting anxiety were positively correlated with doting,authoritarian and laissez-faire parenting styles.In addition to the dimension of security anxiety,parental anxiety and other dimensions were significantly negatively correlated with democracy and positively correlated with inconsistency.The overall and various dimensions of children’s anxiety were positively correlated with doting,authoritarianism,laissez-faire and inconsistency.There is a significant negative correlation with democracy.(5)Parental parenting anxiety has a positive predictive effect on children’s anxiety;Parental anxiety has a positive predictive effect on doting,authoritarianism and inconsistency,safety anxiety has a negative predictive effect on laissez-faire in parental anxiety,and educational anxiety and self-development anxiety have a positive predictive effect on laissez-faire.Health anxiety has a positive predictive effect on democracy in parenting anxiety,and education anxiety and self-development anxiety have a negative predictive effect on democracy.Health anxiety,education anxiety and self-development anxiety in parental anxiety have positive predictive effects on doting.Parental anxiety and self-development anxiety have a positive predictive effect on authoritarianness.Educational anxiety has a positive predictive effect on inconsistency in parental anxiety.Coddling,authoritarianism and inconsistency in parenting styles have a positive predictive effect on children’s anxiety,and democracy has a negative predictive effect.(6)In the parenting style,doting,democratic,authoritarian,laissez-faire and inconsistent parenting style all play a part-mediating role in the influence of parental parenting anxiety on children’s anxiety.Based on the above conclusions and the results of the interviews,this study puts forward corresponding suggestions from the family,kindergarten and social levels based on ecosystem theory.At the family level,parents should face up to anxiety and establish the concept of scientific upbringing;Continuously strengthen self-management and rationally regulate emotions;Optimize parenting methods and create a good family atmosphere.At the kindergarten level,kindergartens should provide learning platforms to supplement parents’ parenting knowledge.Homes work together to carry out education and guidance.At the same time,we must strengthen our own management and create a good environment.At the social level,a good social atmosphere should be formed.Communities carry out family education guidance services and integrate a variety of resources to provide assistance for family education.Form a collaborative education between families,kindergartens and society to jointly promote the healthy physical and mental development of children.