Influence of Parents' Mental Health Literacy on Their Children's Academic Procrastination and Test Anxiety： the Mediating Effect of Educational Anxiety and Parent–adolescent Communication
This study aims to investigate the influence of parents' mental health literacy on primary school students' academic procrastination and test anxiety from the aspects of parental education anxiety and parent–adolescent communication quality，and explore the mediating role of parental educational anxiety，parent–adolescent communication in the effect of mental health literacy on students’ academic procrastination and test anxiety.Total 886 primary school students were recruited in this study. The paper questionnaire was completed by grade 3-6 students in 7 primary schools in Beijing and Heilongjiang province. The online questionnaire was completed by grade 1-6 students，with 454 were from male students，accounting for 51.2% of the total sample, and 432 female students，accounting for 48.8% of the total sample. Students and their parents were tested by the Mental Health Literacy Scale，Educational Anxiety Scale，Parent–Adolescent Communication Scale，Aitken Procrastination Inventory and Childrens Test Anxiety Scale using the collective answer and online questionnaires. Among them，206 （23.3%） were reported by fathers and 680 （76.7%） were reported by mothers.The major findings are summarized as follows：1. Parents' mental health literacy was significantly negatively correlated with educational anxiety, problematic parent-adolescent communication, children's academic procrastination, and test anxiety, and was significantly positively correlated with open parent-adolescent communication.2. Educational anxiety and parent-adolescent communication play a chain intermediary role between parents' mental health literacy and children's academic procrastination. The indirect effect of educational anxiety and open parent-adolescent communication accounts for 35.90% of the total effect; the intermediary effect of educational anxiety and problematic parent-adolescent communication accounted for 37.74% of the total effect. Parental mental health literacy can not only directly predict the children's academic procrastination, but also affect the children's academic procrastination through educational anxiety and parent-adolescent communication.3. Educational anxiety and problematic parent-adolescent communication play a chain intermediary role between mental health literacy and test anxiety. Parental mental health literacy can not directly predict children's test anxiety, but affect children's test anxiety indirectly through educational anxiety and problematic parent-adolescent communication.
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