Parental Educational Anxiety Under China's Double Reduction Policy

China's Double Reduction policy provides the context for this mixed-methods study of parental educational anxiety. The dataset includes survey responses from 1,526 parents and qualitative interviews with 30 parents, authored by Xiaochen Yan and last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Identify distinct parental anxiety profiles based on survey data and Latent Profile Analysis.
• Analyze variation in anxiety-relief patterns across profiles using survival analysis.
• Examine the role of family capital and perceptions of policy uncertainty in shaping anxiety.
• Investigate mechanisms like cognitive reframing or cyclical investment-anxiety dynamics.

Strengths

• Includes a substantial survey sample of 1,526 parents.
• Combines quantitative survey data with qualitative insights from 30 interviews.
• Employs multiple analytical methods: Latent Profile Analysis, survival analysis, and Cox Proportional Hazards model.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset is a 21.2 KB DOCX file, suggesting limited raw data or a supplementary document.

Provenance

Source

Xiaochen Yan via figshare

Collection Method

Mixed-methods design using surveys and interviews.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 13:43:16; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China