The Bidirectional Associations between Parental Educational Anxiety and Learning Weariness among Chinese Adolescents
1. School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China; 2. School of Law, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China;3. Dongying No. 3 Middle School, Dongying 257000
Abstract:In order to investigate the longitudinal relationship of prediction between parental educational anxiety and adolescent learning weariness, 210 adolescents and their parents were followed up using the Parental Educational Anxiety Questionnaire and the Junior High School Students Learning Weariness Scale in the 1-year, 2-wave cross-lagged design. The results showed that: 1) educational anxiety displayed some stability over the year, while there was a significant increasing trend in the level of learning weariness; 2) educational anxiety significantly and positively predicted earning weariness after 1 year, but learning weariness did not significantly predict educational anxiety. This study revealed the parental effect of parental educational anxiety on adolescent learning weariness, which has theoretical and practical implications for im-proving and preventing adolescent learning weariness.