The influence of competitive and cooperative classroom climate on middle school students' academic help seeking

IF 3.8 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, EDUCATIONAL

Learning and Individual Differences Pub Date : 2025-02-11 DOI:10.1016/j.lindif.2025.102647

Yi Yang , Ru-De Liu , Yi Ding , Jia Wang , Yanyan Chen , Hongjing Zhou , Xiantong Yang

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Abstract

Educational researchers and practitioners focus on factors that promote self-regulated learning, including help seeking as a crucial strategy. This study explores how classroom climate influences middle school students' academic help seeking. It also examines the mediating role of help seeking threat and the moderating role of academic self-efficacy. Study 1 (n = 487) used questionnaires to examine variable associations. Three experimental vignette studies followed: Study 2 (n = 129) manipulated the independent variable, Study 3 (n = 172) manipulated both the independent variable and mediator, and Study 4 (n = 109) manipulated the mediator. The results showed that competitive classroom climate decreased adaptive help seeking and increased avoidance and expedient help seeking. Conversely, cooperative classroom climate exhibited the opposite patterns. Help seeking threats mediated these relationships, and academic self-efficacy buffered the negative effect of help seeking threat on help seeking behaviors. Our findings provide insights for fostering students' self-regulated learning.

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Learning and Individual Differences PSYCHOLOGY, EDUCATIONAL-

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期刊介绍： Learning and Individual Differences is a research journal devoted to publishing articles of individual differences as they relate to learning within an educational context. The Journal focuses on original empirical studies of high theoretical and methodological rigor that that make a substantial scientific contribution. Learning and Individual Differences publishes original research. Manuscripts should be no longer than 7500 words of primary text (not including tables, figures, references).