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. 2022 Feb 4:12:764824.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.764824. eCollection 2021.

Parents' Education Anxiety and Children's Academic Burnout: The Role of Parental Burnout and Family Function

Kai Wu  1 , Feng Wang  1 , Wei Wang  1 , Yongxin Li  1
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Parents' Education Anxiety and Children's Academic Burnout: The Role of Parental Burnout and Family Function

Kai Wu et al. Front Psychol. .

Abstract

This study aimed to explore the effect of parents' education anxiety on children's academic burnout, and the mediation effect of parental burnout and the moderating effect of family function. A total of 259 paired parents and children from two middle schools in central China participated in the survey. The questionnaire was conducted using the Educational Anxiety Scale, Parental Burnout Scale, Adolescent Student Burnout Inventory, and Family APGAR Index. Our results indicated that parental education anxiety had a positive predictive effect on children's academic burnout. Moreover, parental burnout played a complete mediating role between parents' education anxiety and children's academic burnout. Finally, the relationship between education anxiety and parental burnout was moderated by family function, and higher family function buffered the effect of education anxiety on parental burnout. The results suggest the mechanism of parental education anxiety on children's academic burnout, and the role of family function in alleviating parental burnout.

Keywords: academic burnout; education anxiety; family function; moderated mediation model; parental burnout.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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The framework of the present study.
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The moderation effects of family care.
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