A study of strategies for reducing anxiety about educational issues among modern parents during the transition of children from preschool to school education

Abstract

The article is devoted to an urgent problem – overcoming anxiety among parents, which arises about the child's admission to the first grade. The methods adopted in Western and Chinese literature that characterize the understanding of this phenomenon are compared. The author conducted a survey aimed at identifying the relationship between the gender, age, place of residence of Chinese parents of schoolchildren aged 6-7 and the methods they adopted to overcome anxious thoughts. It included 12 questions that dealt with the sociodemographic data of the family, as well as the specifics of parental behavior in connection with the transition of children to school education. The survey was implemented on the basis of the Chinese social network WeChat. It was found out that many of them resort to the use of problem-oriented coping strategies, for example, careful planning of actions, suppression of negative experiences, positive self-suggestion. The last thing they want to do is blame themselves for problems, because they have a lot of responsibility on their shoulders.