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Strict Parenting Linked to Students Feeling Parents’ School Anxiety

MHD card showing a student silhouette at a lamp-lit desk beside a tall stack of books while a parent's large shadow looms on the wall, illustrating a survey of Chinese college freshmen in which family conflict was linked to sensing more parental anxiety about school.

Chinese college freshmen from homes with stricter parenting and more family conflict sensed more anxiety in their parents about their education, according to a 2026 survey of 646 students. Higher resilience was linked to sensing less of it, and strict parenting showed the strongest link of all.1 Research Highlights Family conflict and resilience pulled in …

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