Schooling experience and academic performance of Taiwanese students: the importance of psychosocial effects, positive em
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Schooling experience and academic performance of Taiwanese students: the importance of psychosocial effects, positive emotions, levels of best practice, and personal well‑being Huy P. Phan1 · Bing H. Ngu1 Received: 13 May 2019 / Accepted: 20 May 2020 © Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract The present study considered global self-esteem and academic self-efficacy as two contrasting precursors and distinctive pathways that could account for effective schooling experiences: (1) the social pathway (e.g., the predictive effect of teacher– student social relationship) and (2) the personal pathway (e.g., the predictive effect of a child’s recognition of realistic best practice). This theoretical–conceptual model for examination, which we tested with a cohort of secondary school students from Taiwan (N = 750 Year 11) affirmed the direct and potential mediating effects of social relationships, personal well-being, best practice, positive emotions, and academic striving. Causal modeling techniques used showed a number of significant findings—for example: the direct effect of teacher–student social relationship on a student’s experience of positive emotions, the direct effects of a student’s belief of optimal best practice and academic striving on his/her academic achievement, and the potential mediating role of personal well-being between global self-esteem and a student’s recognition of realistic best. This evidence, overall, makes substantive theoretical and methodological contributions to the study of positive schooling experiences, using social psychology and educational psychology theories as a basis for further development. One distinction, in this case, entails our intricate conceptualization of two contrasting courses of action that a student may experience. Moreover, from an applied practice point of view, our research inquiry has informed educators, researchers, and stakeholders of different viewpoints that could foster proactive social relationships, subjective well-being, positive emotional functioning, and academic performance at school. Keywords Taiwanese students · Self-beliefs · Social pathway · Personal pathway · Schooling experience · Academic achievement Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s1121 8-020-09569-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Extended author information available on the last page of the article
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1 Introduction Research in motivation has attested to the potency of the self-beliefs system (Bong and Skaalvik 2003). The self-beliefs system encompasses different types of selfbeliefs—for example: global self-esteem (Rosenberg 1965, 1986) and personal self-efficacy (Bandura 1977, 1997). One notable inquiry that has received relatively extensive attention, to date, is the elucidation of both comparable and comparative effects of different types of self-beliefs within one theoretical–conceptual model and/or experimentation. This line of research i
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