Relationships Of Perfectionism,Rumination With Anxiety Of Preschool Children’s Mothers And Intervention

As the repetitive reflection on one’s life events and feelings,rumination has a close relationship with one’s psychological health.Previous scholarship has studied its positive and negative effects.This article studies rumination’s mediating effect on the relationship between perfectionism and anxiety,and explores positive rumination training’s role in reducing the anxiety of mothers of preschool children.The study consists of two major parts.In the first part,the author uses questionnaires to collect related data of 271 mothers of preschool children and studies the relationship among perfectionism,rumination,and anxiety and tests the mediating effect of rumination.In the second part,the author utilizes the analysis of positive rumination items indexed in The Positive and Negative Rumination Scale to design six 1.5-hour web group consultations focusing on positive rumination training.Then,the author studies the changed statuses of perfectionism,rumination,and anxiety levels intervened by positive rumination training based on two groups of mothers of preschool children(10 people for the experiment group and 10 people for the control group).The main findings are as follows,1.Negative perfectionism has a positive correlation with anxiety,negative rumination has a positive correlation with anxiety,and positive rumination has a negative correlation with anxiety.2.Rumination partially mediates the relationship between negative perfectionism and anxiety whereas it hardly mediates the relationship between positive perfectionism and anxiety.3.Positive rumination training can drastically decrease the anxiety level of mothers of preschool children.