Author(s)

Huiting Wang ¹, Xianglian Yu ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Education, Jianghan University, Wuhan, China

Corresponding Author

Xianglian Yu

ABSTRACT

With the increasing pressure of choosing a career, college students have an increasingly obvious tendency to improve their competitiveness by obtaining higher test scores. Among many factors affecting test anxiety, family rearing style and perfectionism are two very important aspects. From the perspective of family environment and personality of college students, this study attempts to study the role of perfectionism in family parenting style based on the family environment and personality. perfectionism in family parenting style on exam anxiety. 185 college students were randomly selected by questionnaire to investigate their family rearing style, test anxiety and family rearing style. Paternal rejection had significant positive predictive effect on students' test anxiety, but had nothing to do with students' test anxiety. Paternal rejection had significant positive predictive effect on students' test anxiety, but had nothing to do with perfectionism; Maternal rejection was positively correlated with test anxiety and perfectionism. Parental overprotection has a significant positive effect on students' test anxiety and perfectionism. Parental overprotection has a significant positive predictive effect on students' test anxiety and perfectionism. The higher the perfectionism level of college students, the higher the degree of perfectionism, the higher the degree of perfectionism, and the higher the degree of perfectionism. The higher the perfectionism level of college students, the higher the degree of exam anxiety. Maternal rejection and parental overprotection influence test anxiety through the partial mediating effect of perfectionism. Family rearing style and perfectionist personality have an important effect on college students' test anxiety.

KEYWORDS

College students; family parenting style; test anxiety; perfectionism; mediating effect

CITE THIS PAPER

Huiting Wang, Xianglian Yu, The influence of family upbringing on test anxiety of college students: The mediating role of perfectionism. Applied & Educational Psychology (2024) Vol. 5: 104-113. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/appep.2024.050314.

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