Abstract: A questionnaire survey targeting 1000 junior high school students and their mothers from two middle schools in Z province and B city was conducted by using the Work-Family Conflict Scale, Parental Burnout Scale, Emotional Intelligence Scale, and Adolescent Academic Emotion Scalebased on the perspective of healthy family intergenerational transmission, role conflict theory, and attachment theory.A moderated mediation model was constructed to examine the impact and mechanism of mother’s work-family conflict on junior high school students' academic anxiety. The results show thatjunior high school students had significant levels of academic anxiety; mother’s work-family conflict positively predicted junior high school students' academic anxiety;parental burnout partially mediated the relationship between mother’s work-family conflict and junior high school students' academic anxiety; and emotional intelligence played a significant negative moderating role in the first half of the mediation path between parental burnout and mother’s work-family conflict, i.e., emotional intelligence can buffer the impact of mother’s work family conflicts on junior high school students’ academic anxiety through parenting burnout. Based on the above empirical results, this study suggests that addressing the impact of mother’s work-family conflict on junior high school students' academic anxiety requires a collaborative effort from multiple stakeholders. The government should strengthen support for compulsory education, schools should provide diversified after-school services, companies can implement flexible work systems, grass-roots communities can offer family education counseling courses, group organizations, such as trade unions and women's federations should provide extracurricular tutoring services and resources, and family members should share the responsibilities of household affairs and childcare to help mothers balance work and family.

Key words: mother's work-family conflict, academic anxiety, parenting burnout, emotional intelligence