Psychological Development and Education ›› 2020, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (1): 54-66.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2020.01.07

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Does My Friend's Academic Achievement Affect Mine? The Influence Effect in Friend Dyads and the Mediation Effect of Achievement Goal Orientation

ZHANG Yunyun1, HUANG Meiwei1, REN Ping1, ZHANG Ruiping2   

  1. 1. Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment toward Basic Education Quality, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875;
    2. School of education, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001
  • Published:2020-02-05

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Abstract: Although friend is an important factor affecting the academic achievement of teenagers, there is still a lack of research on the two-way influence between friends. In this study, peer nomination and self-report questionnaire were used to collect data of eighth grade teenagers at the end of two semesters, and 216 pairs of same-gender friends whose friendships were stable in one semester were obtained. Using Actor-Partner-Independence-Model, the influence effect of academic achievement between two good friends were explored, and the mediation effect of achievement goal orientation on the above mentioned influence effect as well as the gender differences were examined. The results showed that:(1) Similarities of academic achievement between two teenagers in a pair of friends were due to both selection effect and influence effect. (2) Mastery goal orientation played a mediation role in the relationship between the individual's current and subsequent academic achievements, and the academic achievement of friend could affect future academic achievement of him/herself or the other party through the mastery goal orientations of the other parth of him/herself. Male students had more mediation paths than female students. (3) For male students, performance-approach goal orientation negatively mediated an individual's current academic achievement and his subsequent academic achievement, but had a positive impact on his friend's subsequent academic achievement. These results support the statement that friendship between two individuals is one of the most important situations in the academic development of adolescents and highlight the key role of achievement goal orientation in the interaction between friends' academic achievements and the gender difference model.

Key words: academic achievement, achievement goal orientation, influence effect, Actor-Partner Interdependence Model, early adolescence

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