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A Meta-analysis about Teacher Autonomy-support and Student Academic Achievement: The Mediation of Psychological Need Satisfaction, Motivation and Engagement

WANG Guoxia1, ZHAO Yang2   

  1. 1. School of Psychology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024;
    2. College of Educational Science, Tonghua Normal University, Tonghua 134000
  • Published:2022-05-17

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Abstract: As the main guide of educational activities, teachers' teaching style has important impact on students' academic achievements. According to the self-determination theory, autonomy supporting teaching style can satisfy students' basic psychological needs, improve students' motivation and academic engagement, and greatly enhance their academic achievement. Based on the meta-analysis of 37 empirical studies about teacher autonomy support and students' academic achievement (53 independent samples, 18278 students), the results showed that: (1) Teacher autonomy support was positively related to need satisfaction, motivation, engagement and academic achievement. And the effect of autonomy support on need satisfaction, motivation and engagement was higher than academic achievement; (2) Though the need satisfaction and motivation played significant mediating roles in the relationship between teacher autonomy support and students’ academic achievement, the academic engagement’s mediation effect was not significant; (3) The students’ age, economic and cultural backgrounds did not moderate the link between autonomy support and academic achievement. Overall, in the future educational activities, teachers should provide students more autonomy support in order to satisfy their basic psychological needs, enhance learning motivation, promote academic engagement and improve academic achievement.

Key words: teacher autonomy support, psychological need satisfaction, academic motivation, academic engagement, academic achievement

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