This study examined how academic achievement pressure from parents gave negative influences on adolescents' mental wellbeing. This study was especially focused on whether test anxiety had the role of mediation between high academic achievement pressur...
This study examined how academic achievement pressure from parents gave negative influences on adolescents' mental wellbeing. This study was especially focused on whether test anxiety had the role of mediation between high academic achievement pressure from parents and adolescents' mental wellbeing. For this purpose, 656 male and female students in 1st and 2nd grade were recruited from 5 academic high schools located in Changwon-si, Gyeongsangnam-do. In order to measure the academic achievement pressure from parents, parents were divided into father and mother. And also, adolescents' mental wellbeing was measured on emotional, social, and psychological wellbeing and test anxiety was measured on cognitive, affective, and psychosomatic anxiety.
The major results of this study are as follows. First, it was found that the higher academic achievement from parents is, the lower adolescents' mental wellbeing is and test anxiety mediated between academic achievement pressure from parents and adolescents' emotional mental wellbeing. Second, this study examined the mediation effect of sub-factors of test anxiety. As a result, it was found that affective test anxiety had the role of mediation between academic achievement pressure from parents and adolescents' mental wellbeing, while cognitive and psychosomatic test anxiety didn't. Third, it was found that academic achievement pressure from parents gave negative influences on adolescents' emotional wellbeing by the mediation of timidity which was one of the sub-factors of affective test anxiety.