Psychological Development and Education ›› 2018, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (6): 715-723.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2018.06.10

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How Students Perceived School Climate Effect on Subjective and Objective Academic Achievement: The Mediating Role of Psychological Suzhi

NIE Qian, ZHANG Dajun, TENG Zhaojun, LU Xingyue, GUO Cheng   

  1. Research Center of Mental Health Education, Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715
  • Online:2018-11-15 Published:2018-12-27

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Abstract: This study aimed to examine the mediating effect of psychological suzhi in the relationship between the students' perceptions of school climate and their subjective and objective academic achievement. Two adolescent samples were selected according to cluster sampling approach. The first sample included 1274 7~12th grade students which were from 10 schools in Beijing, Shanxi, and other provinces or cities. The second included 2190 7~12th grade students from 7 schools in Chongqing, Hunan, and other provinces or cities. Correlation and mediation analyses suggested that:(1) There were significant positive relationships between the students' perceptions of school climate, psychological suzhi, and their subjective academic achievement, as well as objective academic achievement (marginally significant); (2) psychological suzhi mediates the relationship between perceived school climate and academic achievement in subjective and objective; (3) there were different mediating effects of different dimensions of psychological suzhi on the relationship between perceived school climate and academic achievement. Among them, cognitive quality plays a stronger positive mediating role in the relation between them. These results suggested that in the process of quality education, educators should pay attention to create positive school climate in order to improve students' psychological suzhi, especially the development of cognitive quality, which would contribute to promote students' academic development.

Key words: perceived school climate, psychological suzhi, cognitive quality, subjective academic achievement, objective academic achievement

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