The Relationship between Parent's Anxiety and their Children's Self-Efficacy in Primary Schools

The aim of the study is to investigate the relation between parents’ anxiety and children's emotional –academic-social self-efficacy, in both genders (girls and boys). showed that mother's anxiety and boy's self-efficacy were negatively correlated.(r = -0/242) father's and mother's anxiety and girl's self-efficacy were negatively correlated.(r = -0/284, r = -0/537). According to the results parents’ anxiety and children's self-efficacy were negatively correlated. Higher parent's anxiety was correlated with lower children's self-efficacy. The maternal anxiety had more effect on this correlation. The results also demonstrated that self-efficacy in girls were more influenced by both parents’ anxiety, while self-efficacy in boys was just influenced by mother's anxiety.