Objective To reveal the correlation between personal anxiety (PA) and dental fear (DF) among the junior college students in Southwest China.Methods The Corah′s questionnaire and personal anxietymeasuring indicator (SAS) were conduct- ed on 1 975 junior college students in Chengdu. The collected datawas analyzed by Software SPSS 10.Results A correlationwas found between DF and PA (χ2=3.97,P