Undergraduates' achievement and satisfaction: the role of study-related factors and soft skills.

IF 2.9 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Frontiers in Psychology Pub Date : 2025-10-08 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1653072

Adi Sharabi, Barbara Carretti, Marisol Cueli, Celestino Rodríguez, Gerardo Pellegrino

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Abstract

The present study tested a comprehensive model in which five social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) skill domains (self-management, social engagement, cooperation, emotional resilience, and innovation; also known as "soft skills") were associated with academic achievement and satisfaction directly and through the mediation of academic self-efficacy and self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies. The participants were 319 undergraduate students (mean age = 22.74, SD = 4.68; 255 females) from Spain, Italy, and Israel. Self-report questionnaires were administered for this study. Our results showed that academic self-efficacy and SRL significantly mediated the relationships between self-management and social engagement skills with academic achievement, after controlling for sex, age, year of study, and nationality. Academic self-efficacy uniquely mediated the relationship between SEB skills and academic achievement and satisfaction. Fostering socio-emotional skills can benefit students during higher education and lead to positive perceptions of themselves as competent and self-regulated learners, which can lead to greater academic satisfaction and achievement.

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大学生学业成就与满意度：学习相关因素与软技能的作用。

本研究检验了社会、情绪和行为（SEB）五个技能领域（自我管理、社会参与、合作、情绪弹性和创新，也被称为“软技能”）通过学术自我效能感和自我调节学习（SRL）策略的中介与学业成就和满意度直接相关的综合模型。研究对象为来自西班牙、意大利和以色列的319名本科生（平均年龄 = 22.74，标准差 = 4.68；女性255人）。本研究采用自我报告问卷。本研究结果显示，在控制性别、年龄、学习年份和国籍后，学业自我效能感和学业自我学习能力在自我管理和社会参与技能与学业成就的关系中起着显著的中介作用。学业自我效能感在SEB技能与学业成就和学业满意度的关系中起着独特的中介作用。培养社会情感技能可以使学生在接受高等教育期间受益，并使他们积极地认识到自己是有能力和自我调节的学习者，这可以带来更高的学术满意度和成就。

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Frontiers in Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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5.30

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13.20%

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7396

审稿时长

14 weeks

期刊介绍： Frontiers in Psychology is the largest journal in its field, publishing rigorously peer-reviewed research across the psychological sciences, from clinical research to cognitive science, from perception to consciousness, from imaging studies to human factors, and from animal cognition to social psychology. Field Chief Editor Axel Cleeremans at the Free University of Brussels is supported by an outstanding Editorial Board of international researchers. This multidisciplinary open-access journal is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating scientific knowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers, academics, clinicians and the public worldwide. The journal publishes the best research across the entire field of psychology. Today, psychological science is becoming increasingly important at all levels of society, from the treatment of clinical disorders to our basic understanding of how the mind works. It is highly interdisciplinary, borrowing questions from philosophy, methods from neuroscience and insights from clinical practice - all in the goal of furthering our grasp of human nature and society, as well as our ability to develop new intervention methods.