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The purpose of the present study was to examine the associations among teacher support, academic self-efficacy, and academic motivational resilience. Two hundred and four preservice teachers anonymously completed an online survey which included demographic information, academic motivational resilience, teacher support, and academic self-efficacy. Three separate structural equation models were tested. In each model, one of the teacher support aspects (i.e., instrumental aid, assurance of self-worth, and seek secure base) was included as a predictor variable. All models were the same in that the three dimensions of academic motivational resilience (i.e., perseverance, adaptive reflection, and negative affect/emotional response) were included as outcome variables and academic self-efficacy as a mediator. Findings were (1) The effect of teachers’ instrumental aid on perseverance was partially mediated by academic self-efficacy while the effect of instrumental aid on both adaptive reflection and negative affect/emotional response were fully mediated by academic self-efficacy; (2)The effect of teachers’ assurance of self-worth on perseverance was partially mediated by academic self-efficacy while the effect of assurance of self-worth on both adaptive reflection and negative affect/emotional response were fully mediated by academic self-efficacy; and (3) Academic self-efficacy fully mediated the effect of teachers’ provision of secure base on all three factors of academic motivational resilience. Implications for research and practice were discussed.
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The European Journal of Psychology of Education (EJPE) is a quarterly journal oriented toward publishing high-quality papers that address the relevant psychological aspects of educational processes embedded in different institutional, social, and cultural contexts, and which focus on diversity in terms of the participants, their educational trajectories and their socio-cultural contexts. Authors are strongly encouraged to employ a variety of theoretical and methodological tools developed in the psychology of education in order to gain new insights by integrating different perspectives. Instead of reinforcing the divisions and distances between different communities stemming from their theoretical and methodological backgrounds, we would like to invite authors to engage with diverse theoretical and methodological tools in a meaningful way and to search for the new knowledge that can emerge from a combination of these tools. EJPE is open to all papers reflecting findings from original psychological studies on educational processes, as well as to exceptional theoretical and review papers that integrate current knowledge and chart new avenues for future research. Following the assumption that engaging with diversities creates great opportunities for new knowledge, the editorial team wishes to encourage, in particular, authors from less represented countries and regions, as well as young researchers, to submit their work and to keep going through the review process, which can be challenging, but which also presents opportunities for learning and inspiration.