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Title: | An examination of social and psychological influences on academic learning: a focus on self-esteem, social relationships, and personal interest | Contributor(s): | Phan, Huy P (author) ; Ngu, Bing H (author) | Publication Date: | 2018-02 | DOI: | 10.1007/s11218-017-9407-9 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/26224 | Abstract: | The present study focused on an examination of both global and domain-specific self-esteems in secondary mathematics learning. The extent to which self-esteem, in general, would account and explain educational success through social relationships with teachers and peers, and personal interest in learning tasks is the main inquiry of this correlational investigation. Two hundred and eighty-three year 10 students (128 girls, 155 boys) were asked to respond to a number of Likert-scale inventories. Causal modeling procedures, aided by the statistical software MPlus 7.3, were used to analyze the data and to test the hypothesized model. A series of a posteriori analyses yielded a modified model for discussion, producing a number of key findings, namely: (a) the differential influences of both global (e.g., →relationship with teachers) and domain-specific (e.g., →relationship with peers) self-esteems, (b) the positive influences of social relation with teachers (e.g., →exam result) and interest in learning tasks (e.g., →end-of-school term grade), and (c) the mediating functioning of relationship with peers and interest in learning tasks. This evidence, overall, provides additional theoretical insights into the operational nature and trajectories of effective learning. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Social Psychology of Education, 21(1), p. 51-73 | Publisher: | Springer Netherlands | Place of Publication: | Netherlands | ISSN: | 1573-1928 1381-2890 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 130106 Secondary Education 160809 Sociology of Education 170103 Educational Psychology |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 390306 Secondary education 390203 Sociology of education 520102 Educational psychology |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 930101 Learner and Learning Achievement 970117 Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280121 Expanding knowledge in psychology | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Education |
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