Psychological Development and Education ›› 2016, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (3): 317-323.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2016.03.08

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Self-Efficacy Mediate the Association between Social Support and Learning Persistence in Middle School Students in Mathematics

ZHUANG Hongjuan, LIU Rude, LIU Ying, WANG Jia, ZHEN Rui, XU Le   

  1. Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Online:2016-05-15 Published:2016-05-15

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Abstract: The current study aimed to investigate the mediating effect of mathematics self-efficacy on the relationship between social support and learning persistence among 228 middle school students in mathematic. The results showed that:(1) Social support, especially teachers' support and friends' support significantly predicted the level of learning persistence. (2) Mathematics self-efficacy was proved to fully mediate the association between friends' support and learning persistence, and partly mediate the relationship between teachers' support and learning persistence.

Key words: social support, teachers' support, friends' support, learning persistence, mathematics self-efficacy

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