A Study on The Impact of Parental Rearing Style on Social Anxiety Among Senior Elementary School Students: The Mediating Role of Loneliness

The researchers wanted to analyze the link between the parenting style of parents and social anxiety of senior students. They also studied the effects of loneliness on the development of social anxiety in these students. Methods A handy sampling technique was employed to choose 287 fifth-grade students. A questionnaire survey was conducted in April 2025 using the simplified parenting style evaluation scale, the children's loneliness scale, and the children's social anxiety scale. The software known as SPSS27.0 was utilized for various statistical tasks, such as descriptive statistics and correlation analysis, and mediating effect tests. The positive way parents raise their children was found to have a strong negative connection with feelings of loneliness and social anxiety among senior primary school students (P<0.001). Positive parenting style can negatively predict social anxiety and loneliness in senior primary school students (P<0.001). Feeling lonely partly influences how a parent's approach to raising their child relates to social anxiety in older primary school kids.