Danli Li , Linyan Wang , Yumeng Li , Yifan Zhang , Shan Hou
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This longitudinal study explored how parental education anxiety contributed to Chinese adolescents' academic anxiety and problematic mobile phone use (PMPU). A total of 247 adolescents (Mage = 13.13, 52.6% female) and their parents (77.7% mothers) completed a two-wave online survey, including parents' reports of education anxiety, adolescents' ratings of perceived parental academic pressure and their academic anxiety, and PMPU. Results suggested that adolescents' PMPU positively predicted their academic anxiety and not the other way around. Additionally, perceived parental academic pressure longitudinally predicted both adolescents' academic anxiety and PMPU. Finally, T1 parental education anxiety had an indirect effect on T2 adolescents' academic anxiety through T1 perceived parental academic pressure, whereas T1 parental education anxiety had a direct effect on T2 adolescents' PMPU. These findings highlight the adverse effects of parental education anxiety on adolescents' academic anxiety and PMPU and provide implications for parents who are experiencing education anxiety.