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 |
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Rok vydání: | 2013 |
Předmět: |
Self-concept
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Learned helplessness Structural equation modeling Education Developmental psychology Large sample Interpersonal relationship Developmental and Educational Psychology Social relationship School engagement Psychology Association (psychology) Social psychology |
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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