“…Meanwhile, Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Theory (Maslow, 1954(Maslow, , 1997 suggests that individuals have a need for security as well as a need for belonging and love, where the need for security refers to protection from harm, while the need for belonging and love refers to the individual's longing for intimacy, recognition by the group, and acceptance by the group, etc., and once these needs are not ful lled, the individual develops anxiety (Maslow et al, 1987). Research has shown that parent-child trust relationships are signi cantly and negatively related to parents' perceived educational anxiety, i.e., parents with higher levels of parent-child trust relationships perceive less educational anxiety and parents with lower levels of parent-child trust relationships perceive more educational anxiety (Pan et al, 2023). In other words, if parents enhance the parent-child trust relationship, so that their own needs for security, belongingness and love are satis ed, which in turn reduces anxiety due to educating their children.…”