The mediating role of social relationships in the association of adolescents’ individual school self-concept and their school engagement, belonging and helplessness in school

Autor: Guadalupe Sánchez Martínez, Diomira Sahabandu, Diana Raufelder, Victoria Escobar
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Educational Psychology. 35:137-157
ISSN: 1469-5820
0144-3410
DOI: 10.1080/01443410.2013.849327
Popis: It is well known that teachers frequently observe a decline in the scholastic motivation of many adolescent students, which in turn is often associated with a decline in students’ individual school self-concept. In contrast, less is known about the association between students’ individual school self-concept and school engagement, or the related concepts of school belonging and helplessness in school. The current study explored social relationships as mediators in the association between individual school self-concept and adolescents’ school engagement, belonging to school and helplessness in school in a large sample of 7th and 8th grade students (N = 1088; MAge = 13.7) in secondary schools in Brandenburg, Germany. The results of two structural equation models showed that the teacher–student relationship mediated the association between individual school self-concept and school engagement, belonging to school and helplessness in school, respectively. In contrast, the student–student relationship did not m...
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