Psychological Development and Education ›› 2015, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (2): 188-197.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2015.02.08

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The Relationship of Teachers' Caring Behavior and Students' Academic Development: The Mediating Role of Learning Self-efficacy

LEI Hao1, XU Guigui1, SHAO Chaoyou2, SANG Jinyan3   

  1. 1. Institute of Curriculum and Instruction, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062;
    2. Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310012;
    3. School of Business, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255012
  • Online:2015-03-15 Published:2015-03-15

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Abstract: This study discusses how the Chinese middle school students' learning self-efficacy plays a mediating role between the teachers' caring behavior and the students' academic Performance. This study investigates 1340 middle school students by using teachers' caring behavior questionnaire and the Chinese version of the students' learning self-efficacy questionnaire, and collects their midterm test scores. Result: (1) Teachers' caring behavior score is higher than “3”; Students' learning self-efficacy has a high score, score of 3.73. (2)Correlation results show that there was a significantly Positive correlation among the teachers' caring behavior, middle school students' learning self-efficacy and academic Performance. (3)Middle school students learning self-efficacy Plays a Partial mediating role between the teachers' caring behavior and the student's academic Performance, effect value is 0.25; Learning Self-efficacy contained two constructs, Learning ability self-efficacy and Learning behavior self-efficacy, Learning ability self-efficacy could explain Partial variance of Teachers' Caring Behavior (effect value is 0.18) and Students' Academic Development and Play Partial-mediating role, and so did Learning behavior self-efficacy (effect value is 0.04); Learning ability self-efficacy could explain more variance and mediate the relationship more.

Key words: teachers' caring behavior, learning self-efficacy, academic Performance, model

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  • G442
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