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. 2021 Jun 8:12:652994.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.652994. eCollection 2021.

Proactive Personality and Academic Engagement: The Mediating Effects of Teacher-Student Relationships and Academic Self-Efficacy

Peiyao Chen  1 , Chenye Bao  1 , Qiyang Gao  1   2
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Proactive Personality and Academic Engagement: The Mediating Effects of Teacher-Student Relationships and Academic Self-Efficacy

Peiyao Chen et al. Front Psychol. .

Abstract

A proactive personality provides students with strong competitiveness in academic learning. However, previous research primarily focused on the effects of the big five facets, and less attention was paid to proactive personality which shows more incremental validity in learning. The current study aimed to investigate the relationship between proactive personality and academic engagement. The sample consisted of 519 students (245 females, 274 males; M age = 10.20, SD = 0.891). The study used Mplus 7.0 software to establish structural equation models (SEM). The results showed a significant positive relationship between proactive personality and academic engagement. Teacher-student relationships and academic self-efficacy were found to fully mediate separately between proactive personality and academic engagement. Moreover, the serial mediator model indicated that proactive personality was sequentially related to academic engagement through teacher-student relationships and academic self-efficacy. The implications for learning and teaching are discussed.

Keywords: academic engagement; academic self-efficacy; elementary school students; proactive personality; teacher-student relationships.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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The proposed mediation model.
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The serial mediation model with teacher-student relationship and academic self-efficacy as mediators of the linkage between proactive personality and academic engagement.
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