In this study, the relationship between perceived parental behavior and anxiety in children was examined. The study included 184 elementary school students from Osnovna skola Stjepan Radic in Imotski. There were 86 female students (46.7%) and 98 male students (53.3%) aged 10-14 . The sample is convenient. The first issue in this study refers to the difference in the expressiveness of the symptoms on the subscales of anxiety depending on the sex and age of the participants.Although girls achieve slightly higher results in all subscales of anxiety, using MANOVA, it has been determined that there is no statistically significant difference between girls and boys in the expressiveness of the symptoms of anxiety. Neither was a statistically significant connection between the age of the participant and most of the subscales of anxiety obtained. The second issue in this study refers to specific fears and phobias that children have. 60.9% of the participants in this study reported that they have a specific fear or phobia. They are mostly afraid of death or illness in their family, poisonous/dangerous animals, testing situationa/ examinations /marks. Among participants who reported a specific fear or phobia 68% are girls and 53% are boys. Therefore, it is evident that girls are afraid more than boys. The third issue refers to sex and age differences in assessing individual subscales and dimensions of perceived parental behaviour. Mothers get higher evaluation in almost all subscales and dimensions of parental behaviour than fathers: Warmth, Autonomy, Parental knowledge, Inductive reasoning, Intrusiveness, Parental support and Restrictive control, while in the subscale of Punishment, they achieve equal evaluation, and only in the subscale/ dimension of Permissiveness do fathers achieve higher results. The children evaluate the mother's Parental support and Restrictive control as higher than the father's. Such results could parlty be explained by the fact that most children come from a mostly traditional, patriarchal environment, in which the up-bringing of a child is much more a mother's than a father's responsibility. The results of a multivariant analysis suggest that there is no statistically significant difference in evaluating a mother's behaviour in the dimensions of Parental support, Restrictive control and Permissiveness depending on the sex and age of the interviewee, while there is a statistically significant difference in the evaluation of the father's behaviour in these dimensions, depending on the sex. Boys and girls differ in the perception of the father's behaviour in the dimension of Restrictive control in such a way that girls have a lower perception of the father's restrictive control. The last problem in this work is to determine the relationship between anxiety in children and perceived parental behaviour. The corelations between anxiety subscales and dimensions of perceived behaviour of the mother and the father are calculated. All anxiety subscales are significantly connected only with the dimension of Restrictive parental control.