Abstract: The education anxiety among parents of primary and secondary school students is a social and research hot issue now. In this field there are few qualitative studies using interpretive phenomenological analysis. In order to vividly and stereoscopically depict the common psychological characteristics of education anxiety of parents,this study conducted semi-structured individual interviews with 8 parents of primary and secondary school students in a state of educational anxiety. Following the steps of interpretive phenomenological analysis,four high-level themes of the common psychological characteristics of educational anxiety of those parents have been obtained:failed parental roles,high parent-child integration,rigid thinking patterns,fragile coping mechanisms,and corresponding 10 primary themes. The results help to understand the root causes of education anxiety of parents from a psychological perspective and find effective ways to alleviate their educational anxiety.

Key words: the education anxiety of parents, interpretive phenomenological analysis, qualitative research