In recent years, the mental health problems of children and adolescents in China have become increasingly prominent. Students of primary school in grades 4-6 are in the transition between childhood and adolescence. They are facing lots of challenges. Resilience can help individuals to develop good adaptability, reduce the negative impact caused by pressure, and realize the good development of individual psychological and social function. However, educational anxiety has been filled in the society for a long time, as the phenomenon of mothers' educational anxiety is more prominent. Driven by educational anxiety, mothers have exerted too much learning pressure on their children. It is not good for the development of children' s resilience. This study explored the relationship between mothers' educational anxiety and children's resilience in primary school, and investigated the mediating effect of parenting style. This study surveyed 557 primary school students in grades 4-6 as well as their mothers with The Resilience Scale for Adolescents, Questionnaire on Mothers' Educational Anxiety of Primary School Students and Simplified Questionnaire on Parenting Style. There are 494 valid questionnaires. The collected data were analyzed with t-test, variance analysis, correlation analysis, regression analysis, and bootstrap-based mediation model.
Results:
1 .Non-only child mothers have higher education anxiety than only child; Mothers with a master's degree or higher have the lowest level of anxiety in education, mothers with a high school or secondary school degree have the highest level of anxiety in education, and unemployed mothers have the highest level of anxiety.
2. The score of fathers' negative parenting style of boys in the primary schools is higher than girls; The positive parenting style score of the only child is higher than that of the non-only child. When the father is master degree or above, the scores of fathers' positive parenting style and mothers' positive parenting style are the highest; When the mother was master degree or above, the scores of fathers' positive parenting style, mothers' positive parenting style and fathers' negative parenting style are the highest. When fathers are members of the state organs, enterprises or public institutions, the score of the mother's positive parenting style is highest; when mothers are unemployed, the score of fathers' negative parenting style is highest.
3 .When the education leader is the mother，children's resilience is better than the child who 's education leader is the father.
4. Mothers' educational anxiety was negatively correlated with positive parenting style and positively correlated with negative parenting style. Positive parenting style has a significant positive correlation with children's resilience while negative parenting style has a significant negative correlation with it. Mothers' educational anxiety was negatively correlated with children's resilience.
5. Parenting style partially mediated the relationship between mothers' e Conclusion: Mothers' educational anxiety positively predicts negative parenting style, negatively predicts positive parenting style; positive parenting style positively predicts the resilience of primary school students in grades 4-6, negative parenting style negatively predicts the resilience of primary school students in grades 4-6; mothers' educational anxiety negatively predicts the resilience of primary school students in grades 4-6, while indirectly affects the resilience through parenting style.ducational anxiety and children's resilience in primary schools.
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