European Journal of Psychology of Education最新文献

{"title":"Stress and academic achievement among distance university students in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic: age, perceived study time, and the mediating role of academic self-efficacy","authors":"Emilia Cabras, Pilar Pozo, Juan C. Suárez-Falcón, Mariagiovanna Caprara, Antonio Contreras","doi":"10.1007/s10212-024-00871-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-024-00871-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The COVID-19 pandemic, and the associated confinement, imposed a novel personal and social context for university students; nevertheless, few studies have addressed the effects of this on distance university students. Indeed, defining the needs of these students under such unique circumstances will allow them to receive the support necessary to effectively reduce their perceived stress and improve their academic achievement. A predictive model was designed to examine the direct effects of the variables’ age and perceived study time on stress and academic achievement in students in an online learning context, as well as to assess the indirect effects through the mediating role of academic self-efficacy. Using path analysis, the model was tested on a sample of 1030 undergraduate students between 18 and 60 years old enrolled on a psychology degree course at the UNED (National Distance Learning University of Spain). The model provides a good fit to the data, confirming the mediating role of academic self-efficacy. Perceived study time is a factor negatively associated with stress and positively with academic achievement. However, it appeared that age was not related to academic achievement, indicating that academic self-efficacy had no mediating effect on these two variables. Academic self-efficacy is a mediator and protective factor in challenging times like the COVID-19 pandemic. These results may contribute to the design of educational and clinical interventions for students at an online learning university over an extended age range.</p>","PeriodicalId":47800,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychology of Education","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141528852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Socio-emotional behavior, learning, and the distinct contributions of Executive Functions in primary graders","authors":"Costanza Ruffini, Eva Bei, Chiara Pecini","doi":"10.1007/s10212-024-00860-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-024-00860-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Socio-emotional school behavior and learning are both fundamental aspects of children’s development influenced by cognitive control processes named Executive Functions (EF). Yet, research on school-age children has often focused on the relationship between EF and learning skills overlooking that of EF and school behavior, which has usually been examined among preschoolers. The current study investigated the contribution of EF in both school behavior and learning in school-age children. One hundred forty-six III–V graders were assessed using text comprehension and EF tasks and evaluated by teachers-rated inventories on behavioral difficulties and EF within the school context. The results suggested a different involvement of direct and indirect EF measures in the two domains considered: controlling for socioeconomic level and age, an EF direct measure, predicted reading comprehension whereas teacher-reported EF related to both behavior and text comprehension. The results contribute to defining the role of cognitive control processes on school behavior and learning in school-age children.</p>","PeriodicalId":47800,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychology of Education","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141530478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"With me it is exactly the same: second stories and their argumentative function in child talk","authors":"Joanna Wala, Kati Hannken-Illjes, Ines Bose, Stephanie Kurtenbach","doi":"10.1007/s10212-024-00855-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-024-00855-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Conversation circles in kindergartens can foster discursive abilities such as argumentation. This paper analyzes argumentation in conversation circles in a kindergarten with respect to the function of narrative argumentation. We focus on second stories as a specific narrative form that is characterized by relating in content and form to a before told narrative thereby displaying similarity and alignment. In this paper, we will analyze videographed conversation circles in a kindergarten. Our methodological approach is interactional and qualitative, informed by conversation analysis and narrative analysis. We will argue that preschool children use second stories for argumentative purposes in cooperative argumentative exchanges and through them produce interactional alignment.</p>","PeriodicalId":47800,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychology of Education","volume":"185 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141512581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dialogue on ethics and ethics of dialogue: an exploratory study","authors":"Noa Brandel, Baruch B. Schwarz, Talli Cedar, Michael J. Baker, Lucas M. Bietti, Gwen Pallarès, Françoise Détienne","doi":"10.1007/s10212-024-00856-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-024-00856-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We report on a study bearing implications for ethical learning in schoolchildren during social interaction. The study was conducted as part of a project aimed at promoting ethical learning of socially-oriented values within the context of dialogic education. 172 fourth graders from 7 classes participated in an 8-session series designed to foster empathy, inclusion, and tolerance. Two of these sessions (3 and 8) were pre-selected for analysis. We investigated (1) whether students’ discussion of ethical issues and the ethical aspects of their actual in-class interaction with each other can be reliably measured, and (2) what relation holds between students’ ethical thinking during classroom discussions and the ethical aspects of their behavior. We thus developed an analytical framework comprising two tools for appraising ethical thinking and behavior in in-class interaction: dialogue on ethics (DoE) and ethics of dialogue (EoD). This framework was applied to the dialogues taken from the two sessions. The DoE and EoD tools proved reliable, as inter-rater agreement was substantial. Moreover, the relation between children’s DoE and their EoD was positive where the topic posed for discussion presented a dilemma and students’ interaction proceeded under moderate teacher guidance. In contrast, it was negative when the discussion was conceptual, and the teacher was dominant. We conclude that (1) DoE/EoD is a suitable framework for studying children’s ethical learning and development in social interaction, and (2) ethical learning, in its epistemological and behavioral dimensions, can be boosted or inhibited in a context of dialogic education, depending on design principles.</p>","PeriodicalId":47800,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychology of Education","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141512584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Parents’ attitudes towards helping children learn math: how do they matter for early math competence?","authors":"Sum Kwing Cheung, Audrey Pui Lam Ho, Bertha H. C. Kum, Winnie Wai Lan Chan","doi":"10.1007/s10212-024-00863-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-024-00863-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The home math environment is vital for early math development. Yet, there is limited understanding of how parents translated their attitudes towards helping children learn math (HCLM) into actions to influence their young children’s math-related outcomes. Thus, the present study examined whether parents’ perceived competence, value, and pressure about HCLM contributed to young children’s math competence through parents’ interest in HCLM, home math activities, and children’s interest in math. One hundred forty-seven parents were surveyed about their attitudes, practices, and their children’s math interest. Meanwhile, their children were individually tested on applied math problem solving. Results showed that parents’ perceived competence and value about HCLM predicted their interest in HCLM, while parents’ pressure about HCLM predicted children’s math interest. Parents’ interest in HCLM is positively linked to children’s applied math problem solving via children’s math interest. This study shed light on the importance of promoting parents’ positive attitudes towards HCLM.</p>","PeriodicalId":47800,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychology of Education","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141512585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sense of relatedness and study engagement as mediators between students’ peer support and life satisfaction","authors":"Sanna Ulmanen, Lotta Tikkanen, Kirsi Pyhältö","doi":"10.1007/s10212-024-00858-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-024-00858-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Previous research suggests that peer support is an essential component of adolescents’ sense of relatedness in peer relationships and correlates with study engagement and life satisfaction. However, what the underlying mechanisms of these relationships are, has remained unclear. This study examined 1) whether the sense of relatedness or study engagement mediate the effect of peer support on students’ life satisfaction, and 2) whether sense of relatedness mediates the effects of peer support on students’ study engagement. The data were analysed with the structural equation modelling (SEM), using a cross-sectional sample of Finnish upper secondary education students (n = 293) (63% female, 31% male). The results showed that the relationship between peer support and the student life satisfaction beyond the school was fully mediated by students’ experiences of study engagement and sense of relatedness. This suggests that peer support for studying by itself is not sufficient for cultivating student life satisfaction, but its effectiveness depends on whether it positively impacts their study engagement and sense of relatedness. To improve the life satisfaction of upper secondary education students, study-related peer support needs to be cultivated so that it triggers students’ sense of relatedness and study engagement.</p>","PeriodicalId":47800,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychology of Education","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141512583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Task aversiveness and outcome value mediate the relationship between self-control and academic procrastination among primary school students","authors":"Yuhua Li, Chunyan Liu, Zhenzhen Huo, Libin Zhang, Jingya Han, Quan Li, Tingyong Feng","doi":"10.1007/s10212-024-00851-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-024-00851-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Student academic procrastination has been established as a strong predictor of several unfavorable consequences such as poor academic performance, low academic self-efficacy, and negative emotional experience. Increasing knowledge on what variables affect academic procrastination can assist nurturers and educators in minimizing student academic procrastination in the primary school setting. Based on the temporal decision model, this study examined the link between self-control and academic procrastination via the mediational role of task aversiveness and outcome value. The model was tested using structural equation modeling and cross-sectional data from 3028 primary school students (50.8% boys) in grades 3–6. The results showed a positive association between the impulse system and academic procrastination, and a negative association between the control system and academic procrastination among primary school students. Moreover, both task aversiveness and outcome value were found to mediate the link between self-control and academic procrastination among primary school students. These findings suggest that encouraging and guiding students to think more about the positive outcome and less about the negative engagement of tasks may be an effective strategy to reduce their academic procrastination.</p>","PeriodicalId":47800,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychology of Education","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141530500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The interplay between teachers’ value-related educational goals and their value-related School climate over time","authors":"Thomas P. Oeschger, Elena Makarova, Evren Raman, Beatrice Hayes, Anna K. Döring","doi":"10.1007/s10212-024-00849-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-024-00849-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Values education within the school context is, among other elements, shaped by a value-related school climate as well as teachers’ value-related educational goals. This longitudinal study investigated the interplay between these two elements over fifteen months, starting in March 2021, and including four points of measurement (<i>t1</i> − <i>t4</i>). The sample consisted of 118 primary school teachers (years 1 and 2) from primary schools in Switzerland. Teachers’ value-related educational goals were measured with the <i>Portrait Values Questionnaire</i>, and teachers’ perception of their school climate was measured with the <i>12-Item School Climate Measure Scale</i>. <i>Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Models</i> along with <i>Multiple Imputation</i> for missing data were used to investigate the reciprocal relationships along the four dimensions of value-related educational goals represented by Schwartz’s <i>Higher-Order Value Types: Openness to Change</i>, <i>Conservation</i>, <i>Self-Enhancement</i>, and <i>Self-Transcendence</i> and their corresponding dimensions of a perceived value-related school climate of <i>Innovation</i>, <i>Stability</i>, <i>Performance</i>, and <i>Support.</i> For the dimensions “<i>Innovation</i> and<i> Openness to Change</i>,” the analyses revealed that the perceived value-related school climate of <i>Innovation</i> predicted teachers’ value-related educational goals of <i>Openness to Change</i> significantly from <i>t1</i> to <i>t2</i>, while an effect in the opposite direction from <i>t2</i> to <i>t3</i> and from <i>t3</i> to <i>t4</i> was found. For the dimension “<i>Stability</i> and <i>Conservation</i>,” the analyses revealed that the perceived value-related school climate of <i>Stability</i> predicted teachers’ value-related educational goals of <i>Conservation</i> from <i>t3</i> to <i>t4</i>. These findings are discussed in light of the dynamic processes of values education within the school environment as well as in the context of environmental and societal developments.</p>","PeriodicalId":47800,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychology of Education","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141502964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The impact of perceived social support on e-learning engagement among college students: serial mediation of growth mindset and subjective well-being","authors":"Xuebin Wang, Yanjun Wang","doi":"10.1007/s10212-024-00853-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-024-00853-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Online learning has grown in popularity over the last few years. Understanding what factors and how they contribute to students’ e-learning engagement is crucial for the success of online education. Based on the ecological system theory, this study aims to examine the association between perceived social support and e-learning engagement among Chinese college students and explore whether growth mindset and subjective well-being mediated this association. A survey was conducted among 605 college students in China. The results showed that perceived social support is positively and significantly associated with e-learning engagement and that growth mindset and subjective well-being play independent and joint mediating roles in the link between the two constructs. Our findings highlight the importance of the interaction between perceived social support, growth mindset, and subjective well-being in e-learning engagement among college students. This study contributes to the theoretical and practical understanding of the e-learning ecosystem in college students.</p>","PeriodicalId":47800,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychology of Education","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141194595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Synthesising models of primary school mathematicians by putting influencing factors of mathematics performance to the test","authors":"Jakob Kelz, Georg Krammer","doi":"10.1007/s10212-024-00836-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-024-00836-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The gender-sensitive analysis of influencing factors on mathematical performance of primary school pupils can yield valuable insights into facilitating this vital phase of pupils’ educational trajectory. We view gender-sensitive mathematical performance in primary school based on works of Niklas (<i>Psychologie in Erziehung und Unterricht</i>, <i>62</i>, 106, 2015) and Luttenberger et al. (<i>Psychology Research and Behavior Management</i>, <i>11</i>, 311–322, 2018). All elements of their models can be assigned to structural traits of origin, home learning environment, interacting variables, and mathematics performance. These are presented and described in terms of gender. In our four-year long longitudinal study (<i>n</i> = 239) with four measurement points in primary school, the interplay and predictive power of these elements were analysed with structural equation model. Among the structural traits of origin, socio-economic status and migration background are relevant concerning precursor skills. The home learning environment is not relevant for precursor skills or later mathematics performance. The precursor skills and self-concept appear to be significant for mathematics performance whereas enjoyment of the subject does not matter. Gender affected only two measuring points of mathematics performance, so that the results support the gender similarity hypothesis according to Hyde (<i>The American psychologist</i>, <i>60</i>, 581–592, 2005.) According to our study, school entry is not shaped by gender differences in social background, affective characteristics, or precursor skills. The results emphasize gender equality at the start of school, so that it is of interest for future studies to determine when and on the basis of which criteria performance differences develop in mathematics.</p>","PeriodicalId":47800,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychology of Education","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141166739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}