Getting along and feeling good: Reciprocal associations between student-teacher relationship quality and students’ emotions.

Autor(en)

Thomas Götz, Maik Bieleke, Katarzyna Gogol, Jan van Tartwijk, Tim Mainhard, Anastasiya A. Lipnevich, Reinhard Pekrun

Abstrakt

Relationship quality and emotional experience are both important constructs in learning environments but the question of how they are linked requires more attention in empirical research. We hypothesized reciprocal associations between student-teacher relationship quality (i.e., interpersonal closeness) and students' emotions in the classroom (i.e., enjoyment, pride, anxiety, anger, boredom, and shame). Data from a two-wave longitudinal study with annual assessments in grade 10 (Time 1) and 11 (Time 2) were used to test this hypothesis (N = 535; mean age at Time 1: 16.7 years, SD = 0.6). Student-perceived relationship quality and students' emotions were assessed in the academic domains of mathematics, German, English, and French. In line with our hypothesis, cross-lagged panel models showed reciprocal associations: Higher relationship quality was associated with stronger positive emotions and weaker negative emotions over time. In turn, lower negative emotions and higher positive emotions were associated with higher relationship quality. The association between initial emotions and student-teacher relationship quality one year later was stronger than the reverse association. Further, the links between relationship quality and emotions were largely equivalent across school domains but differed in strength across emotions. Implications for future research and educational practice are discussed.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Psychologie der Entwicklung und Bildung

Externe Organisation(en)

Utrecht University, Technische Universität München, Universität Konstanz, City University of New York

Journal

Learning and Instruction

Band

71

Anzahl der Seiten

17

ISSN

0959-4752

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2020.101349

Publikationsdatum

02-2021

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

501002 Angewandte Psychologie, 501016 Pädagogische Psychologie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Education, Developmental and Educational Psychology

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/getting-along-and-feeling-good-reciprocal-associations-between-studentteacher-relationship-quality-and-students-emotions(f31ffeb3-999f-4f22-ba7d-ecb29851b395).html