The Influence of Teacher-Student Relationship on Anxiety and Depression in Children

Abstract

Children’s mental health plays a very important role in their personality development in the early age, while negative mental situation will probably make strong influence to their development of mental health. In order to discuss the reasons of children’s emotion of anxiety and depression, this research used Social Anxiety Scale for Children (SASC), teacher-student relationship (TSRS), Children’s Depression Ra-ting Scale (CDRS), Self Perception Profile for Children (SPPC) to measure specific emotional fields among 340 students from Shandong province. The results show that: 1. Teacher-Students relationship predicted anxiety and depression level of primary school students in high grades; 2. Teacher-students intimacy significantly negative predicted the children’s anxiety and depression level, while Teacher-students conflict significantly positive predicted the degree of children’s anxiety; 3. Children's self-perception and optimism also have significant influence on children's anxiety and depression level.