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Developing Children's Humanity: The Unique and Interactive Role of Parents' and Peers' Humanity
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Lisha Liu; Qian Wang; Yanfang Li – Educational Psychology, 2023
The present study investigated the unique and interactive role of parents' and peers' humanity virtue (i.e. kindness, love, and social intelligence) in association with children's humanity. The participants were 761 fourth-to-ninth-graders (M[subscript age] = 12.62; 45.2% boys) and their biological parents. The humanity subscale of the Values in…
Descriptors: Parent Role, Peer Influence, Altruism, Grade 4
The Role of Cognitive Activation in Predicting Mathematics Self-Efficacy and Anxiety among Internal Migrant and Local Children
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Liu, Yue; Wang, Chuang; Liu, Jian; Liu, Hongyun – Educational Psychology, 2022
The primary goals of this study are to investigate if cognitive activation increases mathematics self-efficacy, which in turn alleviates anxiety and to examine the moderating role of internal migrant status. Hierarchical linear models and multilevel structural equation models were employed to datasets of 3088 fourth graders from 57 classrooms in…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Self Efficacy, Mathematics Anxiety, Migrant Children
Whether and How Can a Growth Mindset Intervention Help Students in a Non-Western Culture? Evidence from a Field Experiment in China
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Huang, Zhen; Wei, Xiangdong; Lu, Runhao; Shi, Jiannong – Educational Psychology, 2022
An increasing amount of research has indicated that the effectiveness of growth mindset (GM) intervention is sensitive to population characteristics. However, few studies have investigated whether GM interventions can be leveraged to promote academic performance among non-westerners such as Chinese students. Attuning to the Chinese background, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Grade 4
Multiple Mediators in the Relationship between Perceived Teacher Autonomy Support and Student Engagement in Math and Literacy Learning
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Liu, Hongrui; Yao, Meilin; Li, Jing; Li, Ruoxuan – Educational Psychology, 2021
This study examined the role of academic self-concept, mastery goals, and academic emotions as mediators in the relationship between perceived teacher autonomy support and student engagement in maths and literacy domains. Questionnaires completed by 854 students in Grades 4 and 5 in China show that perceived teacher autonomy support positively…
Descriptors: Correlation, Teacher Student Relationship, Personal Autonomy, Learner Engagement
The Effect of Teacher Support on Primary School Students' Reading Engagement: The Mediating Role of Reading Interest and Chinese Academic Self-Concept
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Zhao, Weiguo; Song, Yining; Zhao, Qi; Zhang, Ruixue – Educational Psychology, 2019
The subjects of this research were 776 pupils from grade three to grade six in Shandong Province, China. This study examined the influence of teacher support on students' reading engagement, and the mediating variables between those two factors, as measured by the perception of teachers' support scale, reading engagement scale, reading interest…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
Parental Support and Homework Emotions in Chinese Children: Mediating Roles of Homework Self-Efficacy and Emotion Regulation Strategies
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Liu, Ying; Sang, Biao; Liu, Junsheng; Gong, Shaoying; Ding, Xuechen – Educational Psychology, 2019
The goal of this study was to evaluate a complex multiple mediation model linking parental support, homework self-efficacy, emotion regulation strategies (i.e. cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression), and homework emotions among Chinese children. Participants were 832 fourth and fifth grade students attending public primary schools in…
Descriptors: Homework, Parent Participation, Psychological Patterns, Self Efficacy