2021
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.708221
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Parental Social Comparison Related to Tutoring Anxiety, and Guided Approaches to Assisting Their Children's Home Online Learning During the COVID-19 Lockdown

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused great disruption in education systems around the world. Schools have in some cases ended or limited on-site teaching, and have shifted toward home online teaching. This situation is likely to cause increased uncertainty and anxiety for parents who on one hand may question the quality of home online learning yet, on the other, may not feel sufficiently confident or competent to guide their children's home online learning. Resulting anxiety is expected to be most evident in compe… Show more

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“…Patents’ social comparison was measured using a psychometric method, namely the Social Comparison Scale which includes upward social comparison and downward social comparison (Brown et al, 2007 ). The scale consisted of eight items and its validity was verified by previous evidence in the Chinese context (Yang et al, 2021 ). Participants reported degree of agreement on a 5-point Likert scale, ranging from 1 ( strongly disagree ) to 5 ( strongly agree ).…”
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confidence: 75%
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“…Patents’ social comparison was measured using a psychometric method, namely the Social Comparison Scale which includes upward social comparison and downward social comparison (Brown et al, 2007 ). The scale consisted of eight items and its validity was verified by previous evidence in the Chinese context (Yang et al, 2021 ). Participants reported degree of agreement on a 5-point Likert scale, ranging from 1 ( strongly disagree ) to 5 ( strongly agree ).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 75%
“…Due to the outbreak of the epidemic, province organized home online learning in primary schools, parents were undertaking most of the homework guidance work, and their tutoring anxiety were also increased with upward comparison. For example, compared to other students with excellent academic performance, parents often feel powerless and anxious when tutoring their children’s homework, they believed that their own knowledge was not enough to improve their children’s academic performance (Yang et al, 2021 ). Therefore, the upward comparison strengthens the parents’ tutoring anxiety.…”
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“…Thus, parents' anxiety in their studies is mainly educational. Educational anxiety refers to a series of abnormal psychological phenomena caused by society, school, family, students, and the lack of an external support system in the process of education implementation, such as anxiety, tension, sadness, panic, and so on (Yang et al, 2021). This study introduced health anxiety by parent-proxy, which was first proposed by Ingeman et al (2021), to describe parents' concerns about children's mental and physical health while learning online.…”
Section: Health Anxiety By Parent-proxymentioning
confidence: 99%