AUTHOR=Baños Raúl , Calleja-Núñez Juan José , Espinoza-Gutiérrez Roberto , Granero-Gallegos Antonio 

TITLE=Mediation of academic self-efficacy between emotional intelligence and academic engagement in physical education undergraduate students

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=14

YEAR=2023

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1178500

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1178500

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=<p>The aim of this study was to analyze academic self-efficacy as a mediator between emotional intelligence and academic engagement. A non-experimental, cross-sectional, correlational-causal study was designed in which 1,164 Mexican students participated (<italic>M</italic><sub>age</sub> = 21.21; <italic>SD</italic> = 3.26) (30.0% female; 69.6% male; 0.4% other). The scales of emotional intelligence, academic self-efficacy and academic engagement were used, and a structural equation analysis with latent variables was conducted. The results obtained demonstrate that emotional clarity and repair have a positive and direct effect on academic self-efficacy. In addition, emotional repair predicts behavioral and emotional engagement. It was also found that academic self-efficacy is an excellent mediator between emotional clarity and repair, and the dimensions of academic engagement, as it substantially improves behavioral and emotional engagement while decreasing behavioral and emotional disaffection.</p>