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Family socioeconomic status and Chinese high school students’ test anxiety: Serial mediating role of parental psychological control, learning resources, and student academic self-efficacy
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology ( IF 2.312 ) Pub Date : 2021-06-21 , DOI: 10.1111/sjop.12750 Xiaobo Xu 1, 2 , Mengya Xia 3 , Weiguo Pang 2
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology ( IF 2.312 ) Pub Date : 2021-06-21 , DOI: 10.1111/sjop.12750 Xiaobo Xu 1, 2 , Mengya Xia 3 , Weiguo Pang 2
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It is widely documented that students with lower family socioeconomic status (SES) tend to have higher test anxiety than their peers from higher SES families. However, few studies have empirically examined the underlying mechanism whereby family SES shapes students’ test anxiety. To bridge this gap, the present study proposed and tested a serial mediation model in which family SES is associated with students’ test anxiety through the indirect effect of parental psychological control, access to learning resources, and academic self-efficacy. The sample comprised 354 Chinese high school students (134 boys; mean age = 16.15 years old). The results were as follows: (1) higher family SES was associated with increased access to learning resources, higher academic self-efficacy, lower parental psychological control, and lower test anxiety. In contrast, test anxiety was associated with decreased access to learning resources, lower academic self-efficacy, and higher parental psychological control; and (2) the mediation model indicated parental psychological control, learning resources, and academic self-efficacy functioned as serial mediators in the relationship between family SES and students’ test anxiety (i.e., family SES → psychological control and learning resources → academic self-efficacy → test anxiety). The findings are discussed in the framework of the family stress/investment models and social cognitive theory. Concrete suggestions for how low SES parents can help decrease their children’s test anxiety are provided.
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